Give me the other half of the deck, we say, so I can play this life with a full deck with both the seen and the unseen. It is our task, our charge, our mission, our purpose here at St. Wilfrid s, to share the loving presence of God with the world. That is all any of us have to know. Now, there are a couple of things that sometimes get in the way of sharing God s loving presence with the world. One is when we don t forgive each other in the church.
Forgiveness is essential to a healthy, well-functioning community.
It s just essential to a community that wants to reach out to the world with the love of God. We re much more effective as a body unified by the loving presence of God. We hurt our communities when we don t forgive, and it doesn t matter if we re right or wrong. Being right doesn t matter. Listen, you cannot not forgive based on the fact that you are right.