Description
A short dialogue for two voices looking at the need and impossibility of forgiveness, forgiving.
It looks at the world, children at play & Jesus speaking with God
In the heat of the moment to forgive costs too much. It is easier for children to forgive than many adults. Finally considers Jesus ready to come to earth and live out forgiveness, knowing it will cost him his life.
FORGIVENESS – WHAT IS IT?
A discussion in three parts: The World, A Child’s example, In Heaven - for two readers.
1 “Forgiveness, what is it?” shouts the world!
2 “I cannot forgive! They don’t deserve it!”
“I cannot forgive until they say sorry!”
“I can never forgive them, they are heartless!”
“I must forget the hurt and shut it out behind my mind’s door.”
“I must use that anger in a better way, to let it drive me to work harder, or to serve others.”
“If I don’t, it will burn me up.”
“Funny, part of me does seem dead, though I live.”
1 “But forgiveness, what is it?”
Continues...