(February 14, 1999)
All wounds need time to heal. And when it seems the healing has done its work, protection from further hurt is necessary, because the scars are on the surface. Physical wounds are bad enough, but when they come from mental cruelty and unfair treatment, pain returns again and again to reopen what no one should have to bear.
It seems almost a sacrilege to ask someone so deeply hurt to forgive those who caused it. Yet forgiveness causes damage almost as devastating as physical wounds, or more so. There is greater stress in bearing grudges and the abused do no need any new pain or new problems.
Forgiveness does not set the abusive free, but the abused.
Peace,
Tawanka
P.S. The window of opportunity does NOT open itself.
My little corner of the world and the pursuit of my perfect, particular harbour.
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