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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
Without forgiveness, there’s no future.
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC’s military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.