Todays’ Wisdom from M. Quinn

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness  is the attribute of the strong.”- Mahatma Gandhi

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Peace & Blessings,

M. Quinn

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M. QUINN is a San Francisco Bay Area Author of the book Removing the Veil, and a freelance writer and columnist for Afromerica.com, the Noyse.com and the UC Berkeley newspaper The Onyx specializing in social, historical and political analysis, and commentary.

Forgiveness, the Cement of Community Life by Henri Nouwen

Community is not possible without the willingness to forgive one another “seventy-seven times” (see Matthew 18:22). Forgiveness is the cement of community life. Forgiveness holds us together through good and bad times, and it allows us to grow in mutual love.

But what is there to forgive or to ask forgiveness for? As people who have hearts that long for perfect love, we have to forgive one another for not being able to give or receive that perfect love in our everyday lives. Our many needs constantly interfere with our desire to be there for the other unconditionally. Our love is always limited by spoken or unspoken conditions. What needs to be forgiven? We need to forgive one another for not being God!