This is going to be a short one.

I really mean it.

It's actually going to be a short one because we're just going to round out some of the ideas and really frankly very

pregnant questions that are lingering from our little sub-discretion on forgiveness

that comes at the end of the passage in Matthew chapter six that has the very

famous Lord's prayer in the middle of it

where Jesus is talking about what it looks like to pray properly in light of the

kingdom values but to pray properly according to Jesus in light of the kingdom values means that you give away

the stuff God has given you and the first thing that God has given away in terms of us having a relationship

with him is forgiveness. He's overlooked how vastly flawed and inferior we as imperfect beings are

in comparison to him.

So the whole relationship with God is predicated on his forgiveness, his grace, which means

if that's what that relationship is predicated on, Jesus

seems to be intoning that all relationships flowing from the person who's received that forgiveness

should also be marked by such forgiveness.

And that really sounds like a beautiful principle,

something would be cool to write like some kind of Christian song

and we could sing it together and like really mean it and close our eyes

and there could be smoke and maybe lights and stuff and we can repeat the chorus

72 times to show that we really really mean it. But you know when it's super hard is when someone does something

hyper crappy to us, like really awful, like deeply, profoundly, life-changingly

awful. Or when somebody does something that's just, mmm, sort of awful, but again and again and again and

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