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Sue Stack's avatar

I heartily agree! My confusion lies more in the area of people doing harm to others, not me. And I get impatient because I don't know how compassion after the fact helps. For instance, when some 19-year-old shoots people in a church or a school (or anywhere), I can't imagine forgiving them, and my thinking just comes to a stop. I know intellectually something is very wrong in the shooter's life, but I don't see a useful reaction for myself.

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Franco Miranda's avatar

There’s lots of wisdom in this post. I’ve always struggled with the tension between forgiveness and the desire for justice. Here, you present forgiveness in a framework that’s very different and very helpful. When viewing forgiveness as understanding, the difficulty dissolves.

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