Impossible to Forgive You Say? 

Change just does not happen by chance. There is a process that needs to happen before we can see change in our personal as well as professional relationships. We have been reminded that forgiveness is the first step on a journey to reconciliation. For inspiration we only have to look at the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Because of him our lives have been blessed as well as enriched. His deep faith taught him that forgiveness was an attitude that he needed to carry with him each and every day. How do you think history would have been written if he did not seek reconciliation through forgiveness? Do you think that you cannot forgive? Dr. King spoke the following words on forgiveness when asked how do you love your enemies?

"First, we must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. It is impossible even to begin the act of loving one's enemies without the prior acceptance of the necessity, over and over again, of forgiving those who inflict evil and injury upon us. It is also necessary to realize that the forgiving act must always be initiated by the person who has been wronged, the victim of some great hurt, the recipient of some tortuous injustice, the absorber of some terrible act of oppression. The wrongdoer may request forgiveness. He may come to himself, and, like the prodigal son, move up some dusty road, his heart palpitating with the desire for forgiveness. But only the injured neighbor, the loving father back home, can really pour out the warm waters of forgiveness." Martin Luther King Jr. http://www.salsa.net/peace/conv/8weekconv4-2.htm