I thoroughly enjoyed reading this module’s text, “On Forgiveness” by Richard Holloway. It seemed to have touch on many key points that I can use in my struggles with forgiveness. I have isolated a few key quotes and I will explain why they held particular interest for me:

“‘Trespasses’, those everyday breaks in the harmony of life of tears in the web of human relationships, than with monstrous evil” pg. 36

I often thought of trespasses as the big stuff, not those small things that give relationships discomfort and stresst. I am glad that this term was clearly defined before used in the text.

“The way she advises us to do this (forgiveness )is to focus not on the act or the trespass, but on the person who committed it, because forgiveness is always of individual never of actions” pg. 36
I thought this was a profound statement in thatin the past, I have often focus pity or anger on or about what was done to me or those I love. Whether reflecting on my pain or the senseless of it, I very rarely focus on the person and the space they were in when the trespass occurred.

The last one, I will refer to in this post is: what is the process of repair that one must undergo on the way to feeling whole.

In my last paper I subscribde to the thought that forgiveness is a process and there are certain steps that must be climbed to attain forgives beyond the empty verbal agreement:

“Reparation repairs the damage done by the crime, wither by some act of material restoration, such as payment or service, or by some kind of symbolic gesture such as willingness to cooperate in special programmes of training or therapy." pg. 47