Father Henri J. M. Nouwen’s Daily Meditation – Tuesday January
28, 2014 “Forgiving in the Name of God”
We are all wounded people. Who wounds us? Often those whom we
love and those who love us! When we feel rejected, abandoned, abused,
manipulated, or violated, it is mostly by people very close to us: our parents,
our friends, our spouses, our lovers, our children, our neighbors, our
teachers, our pastors. Those who love us wound us too. That's the tragedy of
our lives. This is what makes forgiveness from the heart so difficult. It is
precisely our hearts that are wounded. We cry out, "You, who I expected to
be there for me, you have abandoned me. How can I ever forgive you for
that?"
Forgiveness often seems impossible, but nothing is impossible
for God. The God who lives within us will give us the grace to go beyond our
wounded selves and say, "In the Name of God you are forgiven." Let's
pray for that grace.
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