Forgiveness means that you will not allow a temporary event to have “forever” repercussions.

To forgive is to refuse to contaminate the future with the errors of the past.

A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me.

I tend to walk around convinced that any amount of forgiveness that I could extend could never possibly compensate for the offenses that I’ve had to endure. Yet, maybe the greater offense is that I’ve got that backwards.

The fear of getting knocked down is less about the pain of the fall and more about the embarrassment in having fallen. And so, to rid myself of the latter is to reduce my concern about the former, which means I just unleashed my life.

Death reminds us that life is a temporary privilege, not an endless right.