Forgiveness is a renewal

I recently shared this quote with a dear friend who loves it. May it bless you too.

From A Stone for a Pillow,by Madeline L'Engle quoting from A Way in the World, by Ernest L Boyer, Jr.

Forgiveness is, then, a renewal, and for love to grow it must be renewed every day. This renewal is not one that somehow seeks to return to the past, however; rather, it seeks to revitalize the present. To carry a grudge is to live in the past, to live with the bitter disappointment of the expectation of a future that never was. Both of these--the past that is now gone and the future that never was are illusionary worlds. Forgiveness frees a person to live in the reality of the relationship's present.