tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post7766693859056705189..comments2024-02-13T11:11:28.246+00:00Comments on Bishop Alan’s Blog: Forgiveness and HealingBishop Alan Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13879516755776951638noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-6949236799262797842011-09-12T08:30:52.779+01:002011-09-12T08:30:52.779+01:00Thanks all. Erika. I agree strongly. Often we glim...Thanks all. Erika. I agree strongly. Often we glimpse what forgiveness is, then recoil from its outageous simplicity. I've found Robert Farrar Capon to be a reliable guide to the phenomenon...Bishop Alan Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13879516755776951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-2974220299205995422011-09-12T08:24:47.436+01:002011-09-12T08:24:47.436+01:00What a wonderful sermon, I wish I had been able to...What a wonderful sermon, I wish I had been able to hear it. Can we persuade Rosie to publish it in full?<br /><br />I think one of the deepest problems we have with forgiveness is that we always think it is conditional.<br />I cannot count the number of times people have thrown the story of the woman taken in adultery at me, because "go and sin no more" is the strongest proof that the judgment was right, that those judging are morally superior to those being judged, and that, yes, we magnanimously forgive your worst sins, provided you stop doing them and follow our moral code - NOW. Because, clearly, that's how Jesus forgave too.<br /><br />I remember a conversation where I mentioned the man hanging on the cross next to Jesus only to be told that he would clearly not have any further opportunity to sin and that we must assume that, having understood who Jesus was, he would henceforth have lived a moral life had he lived.<br /><br />How do we move on from that?Erika Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01812376497361267014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-35623072942557739702011-09-11T18:08:19.250+01:002011-09-11T18:08:19.250+01:00It would seem that this evening is my time to be m...It would seem that this evening is my time to be moved to tears by the inspirational words of others. First, those of two young girls, Bushra and Serjuntae, on Songs of Praise and now your blog. Thank-you!<br /><br />Fiona <br /><br />(http://orbilia.blogspot.com/)Orbiliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02555592378215131534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-21372363960962684632011-09-11T14:04:35.553+01:002011-09-11T14:04:35.553+01:00Excellent post,you always give me much food for th...Excellent post,you always give me much food for thought! Your words are most appropriate at this time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-27558400840915613842011-09-11T12:37:25.365+01:002011-09-11T12:37:25.365+01:00Thanks Alan, very thought provoking.
Our Curate p...Thanks Alan, very thought provoking.<br /><br />Our Curate preaching this morning reminded us about the completeness of forgiveness. Giving the example of Terry Waite, who had forgiven his captors but felt his forgiveness was incomplete as they had not shown or expressed any remorse for their actions.<br /><br />This is something I will be writing on as it is such an emotive topic for me.<br /><br />I've been there in a marriage breakdown. I've felt myself the victim and lost my faith as one outcome. I can now clearly see that somewhere I had missed my own part in that breakdown and had never acknowledged the incompleteness of forgiveness required. Lots more of currents running there to reflect on.<br /><br />Coming back to 9/11, I can remember watching in horror and disbelief as it happened on a TV in my office. I knew something had changed in the world that day. David Cloake on his blog expressed it as "the world turned in a different way that day" and how the enormity of what was happening was "like a Arnie Shwarzenager movie", until the reality hit home. <br /><br />My prayers today are for forgiveness and reconciliation between all peoples, that we might live in justice, peace and harmony - sharing the worlds resources fairly and for the Kingdom to be here and now.UKViewerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18114944341930758335noreply@blogger.com