Something Beautiful

as a part of lent, i'm finding something i find beautiful/inspiring every week and meditating on it. This week it's this:

Resentment is like swallowing poison and waiting for it to kill your enemy.

-Nelson Mandela

In other words, forgiveness. Holding on to anger and bitterness only poison us, not those we're angry at. This idea of resentment/bitterness compared to poison has been around for centuries, I guess, but Mandela made it famous.

For the days before Ash Wednesday, forgiveness was the focus of my days. I think in order to do the 40 day personal Spring Cleaning of Lent, I'm going to have to go through layers of forgiveness. I'm trying.