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Prayer

Forgiving others: why?

We forgive not merely to fulfil some higher law of morality, we do it
for ourselves. The first and often the only person to be healed by
forgiveness is the one who does the forgiving… When we genuinely
forgive we set a prisoner free and then discover that the prisoner was
us

Philip Yancey, What’s So Amazing About Grace?’

Comment: “Forgiveness cancels a debt and can be one sided, reconciliation repairs a relationship and needs both parties to agree.”

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