[EBH]

"Forgiveness says I'm not going to allow myself, 10 years from now, to still be sitting on the side of the bed seething in anger at the individual. That I have to find a way to move forward, and that I unhitch myself from this incident and move on with my life," he added.

And sometimes that is the biggest miracle to pray for. Sometimes it takes God's grace, it is not always a wave of the hand to forgive. When things and events change your life for the rest of your life, the only forgiveness comes from God's grace. It doesn't come from the human heart, it never has.

All the "race card" games are demonstrative of the lack of God's grace, a lack of trusting that God will work things out, and a lack of belief that while "I" cannot change things or events..it is all in the hands of God.

The direction these 'race baiters' have taken these events will NOT lead to justice or God's grace or God's forgiveness. The path being laid out before the community is one of evil, harm, and potentially more death.

So I say, this is the time to pray for the community to gain the 'wisdom to know the difference.' Forgiveness will be an event that comes much later.

[chesley]

And sometimes that is the biggest miracle to pray for. Sometimes it takes God's grace, it is not always a wave of the hand to forgive. When things and events change your life for the rest of your life, the only forgiveness comes from God's grace.

Amen to that. It took me two years to forgive a person who deliberately and maliciously tried to ruin my life. Two years of anguish and constant praying. I never could even figure out where she profited, or figured to profit from what she did.