Giving thanks for...

...the Atonement of Christ and the power of forgiveness. I've learned a lot about forgiveness in the last 18 months or so and still have a lot to learn. I am grateful not only for the mercy extended to myself but for the mercy shown to those who have wronged me. I think Elder Holland said it best...

"Closely related to our own obligation to repent is the generosity of letting others do the same...In this we participate in the very essence of the Atonement of Jesus Christ...We don't want God to remember our sins, so there is something fundamentally wrong in our relentlessly trying to remember others' sins...It is one of those ironies of godhood that in order to find peace, the offended as well as the offender must engage the principle of forgiveness."


--Jeffrey R. Holland, "The Peaceable Things of the Kingdom", Ensign, Nov. 1996, 82