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I Choose Forgiveness

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It is easier to hate than to forgive. When someone hurts us, steals our peace of mind, or more poignantly-- injures someone we love, it is natural to want revenge. I experienced this recently... a few months ago. Like everyone who lives I have experienced un-forgiveness many times in my life. But the deepest hatred comes when someone injures our sense of what is right. An only son should be with his father. Particularly an only son who has never been rebellious or in any way mean to his parents. A person that takes advantage of an elderly person to steal their earthly money and property are the lowest form of criminals, but when that person also turns a father against his only son... to wickedly confusingly convince him that they are the only people he can trust... and that his only child is his enemy.... that to me is an evil that is so grievous that a person should be punished! But what so often happens in elder abuse cases... the crime is too hard to prove. The wicked per