To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying, your end of the boat is sinking. Hugh Downs
Forgiveness is not an elective in the curriculum of life. It is a required course, and the exams are always tough to pass.
Charles Swindoll
These two quotes happened to be side by side in my miscellaneous quote file. I thought, I think they look like they could go together. So I’ve been thinking of them that way. I’m not sure how to tie them in so it would make sense if your thoughts weren’t following the same path. It’s easier for me to see it, than to write it.
Maybe it’s just the syncretism I see in tying them together. If all parts are necessary for the whole, then it stands to some sort of reason that we need all parts, that we are not as separate as we think.
I think we all learn forgiveness, but I’m not sure all-forgiveness is possible in this life (or maybe even a goal.) We do what we can with what we have, and throw some grace in that makes things possible that are not ordinarily possible, and that’s about all I can say about that. And somehow our fates are tied together, forgiveness or not. The required course is tough, but a passing grade is all that is required, not perfection. I think passing can be a sliding scale depending on what we are dealing with, do you? Mercy and grace cover a multitude of falling short of the goal, when we are still doing our best to see our way through.
And somehow, it makes me think, today, of the last HP book in the series. Maybe not the forgiveness part, but the entwined fates part. And how much friendship can make our path easier, even if it is hard.
And it made me laugh to think of only one end of a boat sinking. As if!
Karin
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Beyond a doubt, my friend.
All those elements you list chip away at the pain a bit.
[BTW- the word for mercy, and compassion, come from the root "rechem ", Hebrew for 'womb'...
An interesting thought.
So, when we speak about mercy and forgiveness, we allude to the feminine aspect of the Divine, as opposed to , say, "El Shaddai"- the Mighty One.]
Loving you from Southie.
Thanks for that about mercy!
I have also heard that El Shaddai, means the breasted-one, so also refers to the feminine aspect of God, of breast feeding.
I don’t know if that’s true or not.
But God does say, he wishes to comfort us like a mother (not a direct quote, I’d have to go look for it.)
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