If someone wants the forgiveness pill, its not going to happen. It is not an easy road. The person has to commit, sometimes to weeks or months. Dr. Enright is often invited to war torn countries to counsel survivors. He thinks forgiveness will work in marriage counseling and for victims of spousal abuse and incest.
Forgiveness is very hard to accomplish.
And I think it is easier to say that we have overcome those feelings, than to actually overcome them. So I think a lot of talk about forgiveness tends to be just that, talk. But Maurine Young did more than just talk. It was one thing to put it in letter form. It is another thing to deliver forgiveness in person.