Hurricane-Force Forgiveness

We live in a wind-storm, a tornado, a hurricane of forgiveness. We breathe it; drink it, eat it; it is our very sustenance. The very young model this: five minutes after an offense, the combatants are playing together as if nothing happened. It is only in the fully-developed ego, the sense of self, that we lose this natural forgiveness. We wound and are wounded and hold on to the wound as if it had value; a good and productive thing. In a child’s play and in the cross, we take our model. The child and the Christ forgive completely and unconditionally.

May the Child-Christ so live in us that we too forgive as easily as a child; as thoroughly as a hurricane-swept island.

11/26/11