Friday of the first week of Lent
Richard Rohr
cac@cacradicalgrace.org
Adapted from &&&Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality

Question of the Day:
How can forgiveness help me to see in a new way?

As long as you can deal with evil by some other means than forgiveness, you will never experience the real meaning of evil and sin. You will keep projecting it over there, fearing it over there and attacking it over there, instead of “gazing” on it within yourself and “weeping” over it within all of us (see Zechariah 12:10).

The longer you gaze, the more you will see your own complicity in and profit from the sin of others, even if it is the satisfaction of feeling you are on higher moral ground than other people. Forgiveness is probably the only human action that demands three new “seeings” at the same time: I must see God in the other who has offended me, I must access God in myself to forgive major grievances, and I must meet God in a very new way that is larger than as an enforcer or a judge.

Reflection
There is probably nothing that will give us more peace
Than forgiveness;
Yet is one of the hardest things to do
Even though it doesn't take any money or resources
Just a decision on our part. Crsr.