Forgiveness
* can be a powerful weapon in the making of peace
  - one of the most powerful things a person does in their healing process
  - only occur when sin is dealt with
  - sometimes be a sin
* choice that lets go of resentfulness and bitterness
  - takes work, prayer and grace
* comes because of the forgiver's mercy and lovingkindness
  - more easily when the motivations of an individual are either known or understood
* defining human activity, for religious and non-religious people alike.
* door to peace and happiness.
* force that empowers victims to transform themselves into victors.
* form of emotional maturity, and is another cooperative social virtue
  - love within the context of a personal crisis
* foundation to making marriage work.
* fundamental part of spirituality.
* future-oriented social transaction toward achieving some level of reconciliation.
* gift that can only come from a truly free person.
* includes forgiving oneself.
* initiates the grieving process where real healing takes place.
* is about belonging to one another
  - overcoming sin
  - also fuel that keeps the home fires burning and the relationship warm
  - always a 'top-down' action, by people with the power to set others free
  - an abundance of freedom for the forgiving person
  - bitterness replaced with compassion and love
  - central to the Christian ethic
  - critical to maintaining healthy relationships
  - daily renewal
  - denial of self
  - essential in loving relationships
* is in Scripture a juridical term
  - large part about helping people to forget, rather than exhuming rotting memories
* is located in confessions
  - families
* is love in action
  - practiced among people who love poorly
  - man's highest achievement, because it shows true enlightenment in action
  - necessary for physical health because anger manifests itself in the physical
  - never to be confused with toleration
* is one of the big issues of human beings
  - most powerful medicines for the human spirit
  - part and parcel of human life
* is part of love
  - the glue of any family or community
  - seen as a strength and as a way of healing
  - something that comes up everyday
* is the ability to look through an event, past an event
  - antidote to defensiveness and inhibition
  - attribute of the strong
  - balm of healing that soothes and heals the wounds of error
  - catalyst that enables reconciliation and love to happen
  - condition of possibility of creating something new
  - cosmic struggle between good and evil, all inside our own heart
  - divine miracle of grace
  - doorway through which all changes can pass
* is the fragrance of the violet that clings fast to the heel that crushed it
  - which clings to the heel that crushed it
  - the violet sheds on the heel that crushes it
  - highest justice and the end of justice
  - most powerful element of love
  - only thing which can dissolve the chain of anger
  - overflow of a life that has been forgiven
* is the power to be restored and to restore to favor and wholeness
  - constitute an ongoingness without the effects of alteredness
  - obliterate
  - resolve
  - real freedom that every man looks for
  - refusal to let the past control the future
  - release of all hope for a better past
  - reward of repentance which comes out of piety
  - thought to dramatically change the individual's biological homeostatic equilibrium
  - vital in developing a healthy spiritual life, or restoring a hurt relationship
* is what flows from that kind of heart when there IS repentance
  - is offered to one who has wronged another
* key pattern in all healing, of bodies and lives.
* level at which one can look past what has happened and go on.
* literally means to 'give as before'.
* major key to healing.
* marriage's lifeblood.
* means totally release of hurt, anger, impatience, or bitterness towards a person.
* necessary element in salvation.
* one person act.
* personal response to the wrongdoer as a mistaken but valuable human being.
* pivot between dualistic comprehension and the experience of unity.
* plays a major role in agapic love
  - an important part in grief
* positive response to anger.
* process attempting to restore a relationship, to renew a covenant
  - of letting go of our attachment to the past
* process that begins as a tiny mustard seed
  - takes time
  - triggered by the wronged persons
* quality naturally found in a forgiven person.
* recognition that there ghastliness that has happened.
* religious concept that implies soul-searching and sincere contrition
  - experience, an ethical and moral act
* response to a serious wrong or betrayal.
* return to love.
* sign of positive mental health
  - self-esteem
* song to sing.
* starts at the edge of the soul and extends outwardly to the edge of reality.
* state of being beyond the anger and hatred, beyond vengeance
  - that acknowledges and goes on
* subdivision of love.
* superhuman act.
* takes courage, strength, and even pain.
* transaction that always involves the two parties involved in the offense.
* virtue of the weak, and an ornament of the strong.
* way of healing the body of moving out negative emotions, negative chords