For Forgiveness

FOR FORGIVENESS

Dear God, please broaden my shoulders and open my heart to the grace of forgiveness, the gift I give myself for my mistakes, for their mistakes, for all our sakes for the sake of peace. Dear God, please lengthen my fuse for it is short, and lengthen the space between my responses for what provokes me, for what provoked them, for all our sakes for the sake of peace. Dear God, shorten my memory and still my desire to ruminate upon the pain both caused and received for what I did, for what they did, for all our sakes for the sake of peace.

— Adrienne Gold Davis, Toronto, Canada