It really doesn’t matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Gordon Atkinson (contemp.) American minister, writer [a.k.a. Real Live Preacher]
Real Live Preacher
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Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.
Gordon Atkinson (contemp.) American minister, writer [a.k.a. Real Live Preacher]
Real Live Preacher, “In the Meantime I Tell Stories” (29 April 2004)
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There is no such thing as The Gospel in the same way that there is no such thing as a circle. The Good News, like the perfect circle, lies forever beyond us and out of our reach. What we have is the gospel according to. Nothing more and nothing less.
Gordon Atkinson (contemp.) American minister, writer [a.k.a. Real Live Preacher]
The Christian Century, “The Gospel According to Anna” (25 Jan. 2005)
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