Fr. Stephen Freeman: “changing the power of the past over the present and the future”
Mar 7th, 2008 by Jill
“Forgiveness is not only a commandment: ‘Forgive and you will be forgiven;’ or even ‘Forgive your enemies,’ etc. It is perhaps among the greatest and most important commandments. For the power of forgiveness can hardly be overstated.“It has the power to change the past. Perhaps that seems like an overstatement - but a wound delivered to me in the past - can be changed and rendered harmless through forgiveness, thus changing the power of the past over the present and the future.”
