Brokeness, Forgiveness By Smyth: A Brief Summary

Forgiveness is not just practiced by saints and not only benefits its recipients but have strong connection with person’s physical, mental and spiritual health. It plays a great role in the health of families, communities and nations. Forgiveness provides common ground for love, acceptance, harmony and true happiness Most spiritual and religious leaders of the world will agree that forgiveness of oneself and others is one way to clear the mind, heart and soul and may result in a feeling of increased peace and happiness.

Forgiveness is generally the ability to renounce one’s desire to punish others for their transgressions. However, there are occasions when one needs to absolve oneself of past transgression as well. In the novel BOO, Smith illustrates how when Boo is in heaven, he begins to break down the barriers that separate him from socializing with others. He realizes the implications of isolating himself from the rest of the world. More importantly, he learns to establish a good relationship with other people, and to trust them in order to attain a meaningful life. Smith suggests that it is only through forgiveness of himself, that Boo is able to recover from the past bitterness and move on.

In the book, “The Kite Runner,” the role that forgiveness plays and the lack of forgiveness is a major role. There are many internal conflicts that the main characters face and all of these challenges or conflicts revolve around forgiveness. Amir, Baba, and Hassan have a difficult time living in their society. The author of this book, Khaled Hosseini, makes the point that forgiveness is much harder for the different characters because of their places in society. This book is set in the Middle East during the 1970’s, at this point in time things were beginning to change. This change is what affects these characters the most and the ways in which they handle things.

Think about a world without forgiveness. There probably would not be any world because it was destroyed by war. If there was no forgiveness everybody, including countries, would hate each other for every little thing causing another world war. Forgiveness is one of the many things that keep us alive. It is also a theme that is taught in The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Illustrators design different covers for the book, The Scarlet Letter, based on themes explained throughout the novel. Three themes that are illustrated through the novel and on cover pages, one, two,and three are being humble and taking responsibility, everybody blaming everyone else, and Hester being torn apart.

Forgiveness is the ability to let someone move past a point in their life and sympathize with the person. Redemption however is more personal than forgiveness and allows you to forgive yourself for a sin and achieving that through action. The similarity between this and forgiveness is that they both allow you to move on from your sin. In the book The Scarlet Letter, the author Hawthorne uses the forgiveness and Redemption to depict the “heros” and “villains” in the book. Hawthorne uses compare and contrast methods to depict positives and negatives through the townspeople and natural life all throughout the book, giving vivid imagery and descriptive wordplay. The methods he uses gives Hawthorne the ability to compare of redemption and forgiveness throughout the book. Hawthorne also shows us that throughout the book Hester Prynne accepts that she has sinned and realizes that she must pay the price for her crime.

The novel Forgive Give, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick describes the life of a high schooler who was raped, bullied, and ignored by his former best friend, Asher Beal. After waking up on his 18th birthday, Leonard Peacock sat down for breakfast and noticed a P-38 World War II Nazi handgun next to his oatmeal; this is the day Leonard Peacock planned to kill Asher Beal and himself. Leonard attended high school the day he planned to follow through with the attack, passing Asher Beal many times throughout the day, he let Asher know it would be his last day. Leonard received very little support from his family which contributed to his deep depression. Herr Silverman, Leonards

Achieving reconciliation after an unfavorable event can be difficult and cause those involved great deals of grief. Both Volf and Tutu address forgiveness, justice and forgiveness. Volf tells the story of his late brother Daniel and the events of his passing. He then speaks on how his family grieved and forgave those involved in the horrific situation. Tutu provides an explanation to reconciliation on a much larger scale as he describes the tragedy of mass homicide in Rowanda.

The article chosen for this review is Healing, Reconciliation and Forgiving after Genocide and Other Collective Violence by Ervin Staub and Laurie Anne Pearlman. The authors wrote this article about the effect violence can have on both the victims and those that committed the crimes against them. They are basing it off of their experiences while they were in Rwanda “conducting a project on healing, forgiveness and reconciliation” (Staub,Pearlmam, 2001 p. 205). Their article focused in on the topic of collective violence and the effect it has to groups of people. “Forgiving I essential for reconciliation to take place and both arise from and contribute to healing” (Staub, Pearlman 2001, 205). As both individuals and in groups they have to try

Forgiveness is characterized as a “shift of thinking” towards someone or something that has either emotionally or physically harmed you. It is not the dismissal of a memory, but the act of obtaining peace, in order to substitute bitter anger. Forgiveness enables the mind to look past faults and look towards what is ahead, as it may bring happiness. As portrayed in the book If I Stay by Gayle Forman, “Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.” Although Mia is afraid, forgiveness is required to move forward, demonstrating that a crucial aspect

Life always has ways of finding secrets, whether it takes decades or even centuries, people will find out one way or the other, some secrets can be kept from a person until they die but this does not mean you won’t affect the other people that were close to that person. People can be affected by secrets whether you like or not, even if the secret isn’t about them, there are even family disputes going around the world right now, and this is because of family lies. Our topic for this essay is about forgiveness, not lies, forgiveness is something you need to overcome a lie or else you will hate a person for the rest of your life if you don’t let forgiveness take a shot at you believe living a lie. Forgiving sometimes leads to sacrifices, which

Forgiveness is the act of pardoning an offender. Forgiveness gives us an opportunity to fix our relationship with someone. Our lives revolve around forgiveness. Without forgiveness, we would build hatred toward someone for something they’ve done and keep it that way for the rest of our lives. Without forgiveness, we would be lost.

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong”. Reconciling with someone is one of the hardest things a person can do. Throughout Bill Clintons book Giving, he discusses cases where reconciling/forgiving someone is important, along with giving those who wronged a new beginning. However it’s a hard thing to do, to completely let go of something painful and forgive the person who may or may not realize what they did.

The word forgiveness has several meanings and has the potential to ultimately cleanse someone’s life of past remorse. According to John O. Reid, “forgiveness is one of the chief characteristics we must have if we are to become literal children of God in His Kingdom” (Reid, 2015). This understanding of forgiveness is seen through God’s Divine teaching and authority in John 14:2; therefore, this interpretation is that forgiveness comes from merciful will and pardon of mistakes. Furthermore, a prominent Gospel analyst from Forerunner Commentary, construes the power of forgiveness through “one of the keys that Jesus taught for healing” (Forerunner Commentary, 2015). This articulates forgiveness of sin as an ultimate custom of healing such as in Matthew 6:12, “forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors,” and “forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who have sinned against us” (Luke 11:4).The essence of forgiveness in Christianity is a diversified matter, however; it is the ongoing implementation of forgiveness into the midst of our lives is what makes a faithful follower. “Jesus taught that forgiveness is central to the relationship between God and humans, and between humans” (Rsrevision, 2015). This instils that to receive forgiveness from God you must be a living embodiment of a remissive follower. Hence, a slighter significance is imparted on a divine pardon, the true meaning of

            We live in a society where there are very few people who truly forgive one another for their mistakes or shortcomings. In a perfect life, everything would be splendid and peachy. In all reality, in most of our lives we face obstacles from day to day. In life we will always be around individuals who upset us, make us angry and are dishonest with us or even hurt us physically or emotionally.  In “forgiveness” the lead character says to her mate “That night I bled again. I woke up and the bed was red, all full of blood and wet, I reached over to touch you

Forgiveness is a “way of healing human relationships and solving human conflicts” (Gopin, 2001, para. 1). Forgiveness comes in many forms such as “verbal acts and formal gestures, confession, apology, repentance, and