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Doorways
of Support and Inspiration:
Forgiveness
What
Forgiveness Includes Beverly
Flannigan
"Forgiveness is not the same as pardoning. Pardoning releases people
from punishments due them and usually is the result of the act of
a person in authority. Forgiveness has nothing to do with forgetting,
either. A wounded person cannot-indeed, should not-think that a
fading memory can provide an expiation of the past. To forgive,
one must remember the past, put it into perspective, and move beyond
it.
Without remembrance, no wound can be transcended."
From Forgiving the Unforgivable by Beverly Flannigan, Macmillan,
New York, 1992.
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