“These imperfect mirrors.”

H,

It is not enough to know that we are imperfect. We must carry that bit of wisdom into everyday life. We must think on it as we assess our interactions with others. We must think of our own wrongdoing as a call to understanding the human condition and the frailty of the others we despise. Or want to.

It is easy to love those in the same boat as we are. If we all have flaws in common, we can form a band and talk through the issue. The real problem, at least overtly, is the flaws we cannot stand. That other kind of misbehavior that our petty morality rules as more egregious than the one from which we suffer. We are always looking at that other wrong and then that other. The command to forgiveness is a call to look at these imperfect mirrors by which we look at each other and declare a holy truce.

We have a history of that. We stand on unstable tables and make great claims about the way others act. The high point of God is when we let this burden of judgment go. When we accept what it is to be painfully human and understand that beyond that lies the eternal cure for all things.

It is not easy. People have forgiven such horrible things. People have failed to forgive even more horrible things. No one can put that burden on you but God. And you must believe Him to do it. He showed you by letting evil be done to him. He made it clear that nothing can and should be unforgivable.