refusal to remember IS the beginning of forgiveness!
Fred has never particularly liked Gary; in fact some of their differences have been replete with shouting. Currently, Gary’s life is imploding: The IRS has seized his house for taxes, he has developed diabetes which requires the insulin that he cannot afford, and even his cat has run away! While Fred has taken no active part in bringing about Gary’s train-wreck, nonetheless Fred feels a small measure of satisfaction that it has happened… even while he feels that there’s something not quite right in this pleasure. To counter this nagging feeling Fred hauls out memories of how Gary has hurt or offended him, as if these memories are evidence at Gary’s trial, evidence which justify Fred’s unwillingness to forgive, of his unwillingness to let go of his verdict of “guilty!” And yet Fred always comes away from this trotting-out-of-evidence with a sense that there is a…
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