The topic of forgiveness, is one I have previously visited, and no doubt will visit many times again, in experience if not in writing. The issue of forgiveness is ever fresh in human experience, flowing inevitably from the wanton harms and evil which surrounds us and so often affects us directly. It is a subject…
Category: Forgiveness
Essays on forgiveness
Three Men on a Friday
Three men on a Friday, condemned to die. Ensnared by Roman justice, convicted, and sentenced to a lingering death of profound cruelty and excruciating agony. The Romans knew how to do it right: execution designed to utterly humiliate its victims, and maximize their suffering — a public spectacle and object lesson to others about the…
Delivering the Cookies
It is, after a fashion, a legend of the fall. Not mine, mind you — although one could say my fall was in some ways greater. My wife’s mother was, though elderly, quite strong and independent — alert, cantankerous, losing a little memory here and there, in nearly constant pain from vertebrae once tall and…