THE FUSE

Martin Luther King Jr., in Strength to Love, wrote: “Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.” We can trust that there is a reliable, unconditional heartfulness in us called a “forgiving nature.” The word for that is “forgivingness.” In forgivingness, we drop the dualism of offender and forgiver. We are forgiveness. We relate forgivingly. Pardon cancels consequences; forgiveness clears the accounts. Forgivingness keeps no ledger of wrongs.