FAITH, NATURE & INSPIRATIONAL

FORGIVE AND FORGET

FORGIVE AND FORGET

[There is none amongst us who has not sinned. It ill behoves us to hate others who have done so.]


Life is short and we are tasked
To toil in manner such
That we obey His command
Without wasting time much.

Keen we are to look for a
Mote in another’s eye;
We perceive not in our own
The beam that others spy.

Why wail that in today’s world
There is too much of vice?
If we judge our own deeds we’ll
Find too many not nice.

Rather than blaming others
Let’s remember just this:
That so much of good, in fact,
In the worst of us is.

Let’s forgive their trespasses
Who trespass against us.
Our own shall be forgiven
Jesus had promised thus.

Forgive and forget, truly,
Is the simple message
That we all ought to follow
In the vice-ridden age.


* “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out 7: of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.” (Matthew 3-5)

* “...forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those that trespass against us”.
(Matthew 6, verse 12)

* There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us.

--Edward Wallis Hoch, Marion (Kansas) Record
(1849 - 1925)

• Written in abcb 7-6-7-6 format


M C Gupta
8 October 2005