Byrnesys Blabberings

I have written a few times about the killings of the amish schoolgirls and the subsequent forgiveness of that community, here and here,

I came upon an amazing reflection on forgiveness, the righteousness of anger, and our prayerful and practical response the admiration it evoked by Susan Widley Daouist HT: Northwoods Contemplative

Ive quoted one of the most interesting passages below but click here for the fulll story, it is well worth your time to read.

So much of resistance to forgiveness is about power: clutching to grievances rather than letting go of the power of the past to move to a healed future. This does not mean we should cease defending what is good against evil, detailing compensation, recompense, apology: all those things are desirable and right, as a matter of justice. But if we recognize that the other is, indeed, a human being, created in God’s image, part of the Mystical Body of Christ, desired for salvation by a loving God, and a sinner like me: then forgiveness is about surrendering the power of corrosive anger, and yielding to the healing power of God. Forgiveness is the work of God, and we choose to enter into it or not. It is recognition that God has the ultimate power here: not the murderer, not the victims, but the One who created them both.