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You have asked for my forgivness

Forgiveness, a word I have never truly understood. According to the dictionary it means: to give up resentment or to cease to feel resentment against. Resentment is defined as: a feeling of indignant displeasure or persistant ill will at something regarded as a wrong, insult, or injury. Sounds so simple. The problem is that is runs deeper than that. If I am in a theater and the person behind me kicks my seat and says I’m sorry I didn’t mean to do that I can easily say no problem and think just don’t do it again. If my partner makes me mad about something and says she sorry I just get over being mad (sometimes this may take a little time) I look at the big picture and say no problem. If someone does something that I have asked them not to do again I get mad and will eventually say no problem. So why talk about my problem with forgiveness? Here is where I have a problem, it’s the big things. Lets take two things going on in my life right now. Someone in my life sent an email that should ...

Three thoughts

Since I did not write yesterday due to illness, today I will cover three different things. First is about cities and states creating laws about texting and driving. This just seems like wasted law making time, but has to be done. When did people get to be so idiotic as to think they should do this? I mean over the years insurance companies and others have done studies showing how distracted drivers are more likely to have a wreck. Do you not think this is a distraction? When did we decide that we had to be able to be reached at every moment of our life? Are people afraid to be alone with their own thoughts? I enjoy driving most of the time because I can think and be by myself. This is where I figure my life out, but then that may be what’s wrong with the world. Second thing. They are discovering that Boy Scout leaders have been molesting boys. Does this come as a surprise to anyone? Any time you have an adult in a leadership role over children you run the chance of molestation. I...