Forgiveness

Posted by Paul Reynolds on Mar 5, 2021 in Blog, Inspired Readings, Western Insight | Comments Off on Forgiveness

Forgiveness is a strong woman, tender and earthy and direct. Since her children have left home, she has embarked on an extended walking tour, visiting ruins and old monuments, bathing in rivers and hot springs, traveling through the small towns and large pulsing cities, tracing the current of sorrow under the stories she hears. Sometimes the city authorities and officials don’t want her within their gates.  If the people want her there enough, she always manages to find a way inside.
Forgiveness brings gifts wherever she goes. Simple ones, a three-stranded twig with leaves turning yellow, a belt she wove on an inkle loom, a little song that grows inside you and changes everything. She brought me a silver ring from the South with a pale stone, pink with a hint of brown.
When I had asthma, she taught me how to breathe.

J. Ruth Gendler
The Book of Qualities

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