{"id":256,"date":"2006-01-11T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/2006\/01\/11\/on_forgiveness_\/"},"modified":"2006-01-11T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T04:00:00","slug":"on_forgiveness_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/2006\/01\/11\/on_forgiveness_\/","title":{"rendered":"<h2>On Forgiveness &#8230;<\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.<br \/>\n&#8211; Nelson Mandela<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uuprinceton.org\/worship\/sermons\/sermon_2005-07-17.html\">Beginning Again in Love, A Sermon by Kathy Lehman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.6seconds.org\/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=51\">Forgive for Good, An Interview with author Fred Luskin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningtoforgive.com\/\">Learning to forgive for good. Website of Fred Luskin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningpeace.com\/pages\/LP_10.htm\">The Power of Forgiveness by Naomi Drew M.A.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvardsquarelibrary.org\/mandela\/22_forgiveness.html\">FORGIVENESS: THE MANDELA PRINCIPLE by Rev. Victor H. Carpenter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascboston.org\/worship\/text\/051113.html\">Give Yourself Up by Rev. Kim K. Crawford Harvie, Arlington Street Church, November 13, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Desmond Tutu said, \u201cTo forgive is not just to be altruistic. It is the best form of self-interest. It is also a process that does not exclude hatred and anger. These emotions are all part of being human. You should never hate yourself for hating others who do terrible things: the depth of your love is shown by the extent of your anger.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;However, when I talk of forgiveness, I mean the belief that you can come out the other side a better person, a better person than the one being consumed by anger and hatred. Remaining in that state locks you in a state of victimhood, making you almost dependent on the perpetrator. If you can find it in yourself to forgive, then you are no longer chained to the perpetrator.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. &#8211; Nelson Mandela Beginning Again in Love, A Sermon by Kathy Lehman Forgive for Good, An Interview with author Fred Luskin Learning to forgive for good. Website of Fred Luskin The Power of Forgiveness by Naomi Drew M.A. FORGIVENESS: THE MANDELA PRINCIPLE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keyword-search","category-weblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}