Matthew 18: 21-35
To forgive any more
than the once
sounds tough
and seven times seems crazy.
Yet to stretch the score
to seventy
times seven
becomes profoundly easy.
We only travel well
on the paths
of mercy,
when we have made the choice
to break from the prison
of “our own rights”
and to find pleasure
in the unfenced grounds of love.
— copyright © B.D. Prewer 1995, posted on Bruce Prewer’s Homepage.
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