Jesus said that if we do not forgive those who trespass against us, God will not forgive us. Its perils are many, and it is downhill all of the way. It represents a journey that we have all taken, to some degree, at some time. Most of us have lived long enough to have been burned by some circumstance or some person. We are familiar with the rush of anger, which the body registers with blotched and reddened skin.
Forgiveness is a superhuman act.
It requires a source of strength that we do not have on our own. Some offenses are easily forgiven. This message is not just for neurotic grievance collectors, in whose life littleness expresses itself in many unlovely ways. It is also to those who have experienced some Mt. Everest offense which threatens to overshadow all of life. In your mind you know that keeping it will not resolve the problem.