Two Insights on Forgiveness

I have a good friend who emails me from time to time with thoughts about forgiveness. They are really just bullet points about lessons he has learned from his own personal journey. This morning he sent five thoughts. The following two really stuck in my mind:

1. “If you have forgiven a person, that means that you don’t make them pay in the way you think about them, the way you look at them, the way you talk to them, the way you talk about them or the way you treat them.»

Sounds right to me. If I say I have forgiven someone but still talk negatively about them to others, then I’ve got some more work to do. 

2. “Nothing makes me more angry than to see other people engaging in the same sins as me. We are much more like our enemies than we would like to admit.”

Ouch!