Sunday Morning Reading

Since I started trying to figure out if there is such a reality show as the Forgiveness road, I have ordered every book about it that Amazon has. A big package came in last week and I am slowly going through them. The one I am reading today is "How to Forgive When you Can't Forget" written by Charles Klein. I have never heard of him but it is endorsed on the front by Rabbi Harold Kushner so that gives it easy credibility to me.

Klein is also a Jewish rabbi. His original premise is how do you get from "I don't need you anymore" to "I want you to be a part of my life again." He says that the book was written for all these people and others who will not know inner peace until they find a way back to the people they loved." To start off the book he gives a story about the painter who painted a house with a door with no handle. When asked, the painter said, "The door is the human heart. And there's no handle because it can only be opened from within."

"Humanity is never so beautiful as when forgiving another". Jean Paul Richter

I will continue to read this book. Isn't it strange how you can tell at first glance or first hearing if the person knows anything about what you are going through! The man has a hinge on the heart that one might open. He says that pride is the enemy of forgiveness. He says that people refuse to go into some kind of reconciliation because they expect more of the same kind of conduct from that person. Klein says that that kind of reasoning says that people cannot change.

Sometimes, they may feel, as I do, that I will make the overtures and that person will screw me again. And I would rather live without them in my life than line myself up for more hurt.

I will continue to read this book.