Forgiveness

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Sweet is forgiveness

When given from the heart

From here true freedom

Does at once start

 

Bitterness and resentment

Only injure and harm

Un-forgiveness keeps us

From God’s comforting arm

 

Yet to forgive another

Is to release ponderous chains

It is to leave a prison

Where cold darkness remains

 

For as the heart forgives

The soul finds warming light

Sweet Son-shine embraces

As one leaves shadows of night

 

My sister and brother

Dear Christian, dear friend

Let our forgiveness have no limit

Let our mercy have no end

 

Greatly we have been forgiven

By our glorious Father on high

No sin against us can match

Our sins for which Christ did die

 

In response to this divine love

In response to this mercy sweet

How can we not but offer to others

Forgiveness pure, full and complete?

 

Let us then forgive freely

All who may hurt and offend

Let us love generously all:

Neighbor, stranger and friend

 

For then we will know God

Ever more intimately and true

Then we shall experience love

In ways we once never knew

 

For the heart of our Father

Is mercy, forgiveness and love

Let us then be beautifully perfect

As is our Heavenly Father above

 

Yes, so sweet is forgiveness

When given from the heart

Sweet like the love of Jesus

From Whom I pray I never part

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 © 2012 Caroline Gavin

How have you practiced – and experienced the freedom of – forgiveness?

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