Editorial January 25, 1982 Issue

The opportunity to forgive

WILLIAM E. MOODY

If we are criticized or unjustly wronged, what is our response? Resentment, self-justification, hurt feelings ...?

When we are not directly involved in such a situation, it is much easier for us to realize how fruitless such responses would prove to be. We know, for instance, that to be resentful toward someone who has wronged us is itself a wrong—eventually causing greater suffering and grief.

A more subtle human reaction to criticism and unjust wrongs may assume the form of a silent, mental reservation—holding out for some sort of compensation, waiting for restitution or repayment of the "debt" that one believes is owed him. This is also fruitless—and without healing.

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