It Takes Brains

Monday. Gen. A3: 5-25.

To forgive in your heart is often a pretty tough task. It’s a fight with yourself. It’s a matter of your heart and will. Yet it is the easier part of forgiveness, even when not easy. To tell your forgiveness, and make the other eager for it — ah! that’s another thing, a far harder thing. That’s a matter of brains and tact. It’s the heart stimulating the gray matter of the brain. Yet this is what forgiveness means, often.

Open in the reader The Bent-Knee Time

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