Forgiveness

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Forgiveness is not an abstraction for 

it needs a body to feel its relief.

Knees, shoulders, spine are required to adore

the lightness of a burden removed. Grief,

like a journey over water completed,

slides its keel in the packed sand reef.

Forgiveness is contact with the belief

that your only life must now be lived. Knees

once sank into the leather of the pew with all

the weight of created hell, of whom you did not ease,

or what you did not seize. Now the shortfall

that crippled your posture finds sudden peace

in the muscular, physical brightness

of a day alive: the felt lightness

of existence self-created, forgiveness.

~ Molly Peacock

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When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. ~ Catherine Ponder