From “The
Human Condition: A User’s Manual” by Arnold Kunst
The last lesson I must learn
in life is how to dispose of self-recrimination. My guess is, the need will
especially arise just before death because that’s the very time that the need
for self-forgiveness will be greatest because I’ll have a whole lifetime’s
worth of screw-ups on the scorecard. Put it this way: God longs with a yearning
that transcends space and time that I accept His prodigal forgiveness. And that
can’t happen unless and until I offer/accept my own forgiveness.
Why? Because the only ones
who complete the trip to heaven successfully are the ones who travel light. And
that means jettisoning the garbage of self-recrimination that heaven obviously
finds utterly intolerable.
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