You can kill someone by accident, but you cannot accidentally refuse forgiveness. It takes focus and determination to continually withhold mercy from someone. It often requires more premeditation and follow through than the most elaborate murder plot. For the plot thickens only until the pulse stops, but unforgiveness is unrelenting, never-ending murder.
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
day no. 14,547: the murder that is unforgiveness
"It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart's choice. It is spiritual murder, the worst, to hate, to brood over the feeling that excludes, that, in our microcosm, kills the image, the idea of the hated." - George MacDonald
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Wow, that's a crazy, powerful thought. Absolutely convicting.
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