He hurt you!

Yes.

You’re hurt.

Innocent, but in pain,

you hear his plea for forgiveness.

You weigh your options.

You think, “I’ll think about it.’

And you do.

You teeter-totter in your brain,

” …but he hurt me. But he is sincere. I think. And he’s hurting, standing there, bare-foot in the snow. Should I not alleviate his pain? I could, of course! And I should for I am Christian. But he’s paying for his sin with his guilt. (And how delicious is his agony…..) But 70 times 7 is what Jesus said.

“Freedom is a residual benefit for the forgiver,” the preacher said in his Sabbath sermon. “Free yourself of it! Leave it behind you!”

So, for my sake, anyway,

and for his, perhaps,

I forgive.

Ah! I feel so much lighter!