We Feel Guilty For What We Do.

Forgiving Does Not Erase The Bitter Past. A Healed Memory Is Not A Deleted Memory. Instead, Forgiving What We Cannot Forget Creates A New Way To Remember. We Change The Memory Of Our Past Into A Hope For Our Future.

I Worry About Fast Forgivers. They Tend To Forgive Quickly In Order To Avoid Their Pain. Or They Forgive Fast In Order To Get An Advantage Over The People They Forgive. And Their Instant Forgiving Only Makes Things Worse... People Who Have Been Wronged Badly And Wounded Deeply Should Give Themselves Time And Space Before They Forgive... There Is A Right Moment To Forgive. We Cannot Predict It In Advance; We Can Only Get Ourselves Ready For It When It Arrives... Don't Do It Quickly, But Don't Wait Too Long.

If You Cannot Free People From Their Wrongs And See Them As The Needy People They Are, You Enslave Yourself To Your Own Painful Past And By Fastening Yourself To The Past, You Let Your Hate Become Your Future.

When You Release The Wrongdoer From The Wrong, You Cut A Malignant Tumor Out Of Your Inner Life. You Set A Prisoner Free, But You Discover That The Real Prisoner Was Yourself.

Hope Is To Our Spirits What Oxygen Is To Our Lungs. Lose Hope And You Die. They May Not Bury You For Awhile, But Without Hope You Are Dead Inside. The Only Way To Face The Future Is To Fly Straight Into It On The Wings Of Hope....hope Is The Energy Of The Soul. Hope Is The Power Of Tomorrow.