True prayer requires no word, no chant
no gesture, no sound.
It is communion, calm and still
with our own godly Ground.
~ Angelus Silesius
I used to think that forgiveness was a one-time and final act -- in one moment the pain subsides, and I say "I forgive," and it is over. But I have found that another day hidden memories spring forward from deep recesses of the mind and soul, and I must forgive again ... an ongoing project of the human soul.