Forgiveness is a great gift of life. Forgiveness is something wonderful to receive and wonderful to give away. I look on my academic success and think of forgiveness. How does a high school reject go on to graduate from an Ivy League University? Forgiveness. How do I find the capacity to love and appreciate people who don’t look like me, are not educated like me, don’t think like me and maybe don’t even like me? Forgiveness. I place a lot of emphasis on the power of the mind and the importance of intellectual pursuits. Achievements in this area might not have anything to do with forgiveness for most. This occurs differently to me. I believe Forgiveness is a mental health process. I believe Forgiveness is a mental and creative process that is a beautiful flower that blossoms from experience and imagining a better life for oneself, and sometimes others, more than a life filled with anger, bitterness, resentments, shame, hatred and possibly despair. I believe Forgiveness is a great feeling but I believe it can, and often does for me, begin creatively in my mind, memories and my imagining a different and better life for myself and I hope others.
