Andree Seu on Forgiveness

Have you purchased Andree Seu’s book yet? If not, I urge you to do so today!

Mrs. Seu is simply one of the best writers I have ever read.

Let me tempt you with just the opening paragraph from her recent essay in World Magazine:

“Forgiving is the hardest thing you will ever do. That’s why most people don’t do it. We talk about it, cheer for it, preach on it, and are sure we’ve practiced it. But mostly the illusion of having forgiven is that the passage of time dulls memory. The ruse will come to light with hair-trigger vengeance when fresh offense hurls in to empty the gunnysack of half-digested grievances.”

Ooooooh — there is SO much more in this essay. You really need to read it! The subscription to World Magazine is worth it for her essays alone.

Let me just close with a tiny bit of her close …

“And now the unthinkable: not only to forgive but seek the good. Nature abhors a vacuum and Jesus admits of no middle ground between hate and love … Be so awash in the ocean of His love, my soul, that the shortcomings of all human love will, more and more, seem but a trifling thing.”

Amen & Amen!

Thank you, Mrs. Seu.