Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.
(Ephesians 4.32 NRSV)
A grandmother, celebrating her golden wedding anniversary, told the secret of her long and happy marriage. "On my wedding day, I decided to make a list of ten of my husband's faults which, for the sake of the marriage, I would overlook." A guest asked the woman what some of the faults she had chosen to overlook were. The grandmother replied, "To tell you the truth, I never did get around to making that list. But whenever my husband did something that made me hopping mad, I would say to myself, 'Lucky for him that's one of the ten.'"

That's the kind of attitude Jesus would have loved. How many times should we forgive someone who has done wrong or hurt us? Seven seems like a good answer. Not so, Jesus says. "Not seven times, but seventy-seven times." The Christian life is not comprised of arithmetic, or just good intentions but is filled with practical, everyday acts of compassion. As difficult as it might seem there is no limit to the amount of forgiveness we are to offer to another person. We are to keep on forgiving.

Loving God, help me to keep on forgiving. Amen.

Ron Newhouse

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