Forgiveness

Cadence was madder than hell. She bit her mother's head off when Mom was three minutes late. Everybody else in high school had their own car. It was humiliating to have to wait at the curb for her MOMMIE to pick her up. Cadence had been give an old, piece-of-crap car and it was in the shop.

Ashley, age 26, was thinking of getting a cat. Nobody had asked her out for Valentines. She had 924 friends on social media and not one of them had asked her out. Sure, she had lots of friends who were guys. Most of them were not the "dating type" although some of them had asked her out in the past. She never got asked out a second time.

Chris spent most of his free time in his game room. Life was just to hard to deal with in carbon-space. He had his video games. He had a 'fridge filled with beer. He had access to vast collections of porn.

Jessy's life was self-destrucing. Every job dead-ended. Relationships with clients blew up and she would find herself looking for another job. Every relationship with a man fizzled. She no longer had anything to do with half of the people in her family. That was a condition she proudly announced to any who would listen.

Mike, age 37, had graduated from a good university with great grades. His degree was in high demand. However, he kept having less competent, younger people promoted before he was. Mike was know for a wickedly, sarcastic tongue. Mike thought of sarcasm as an art-form. Mike suffered from tension headaches and heart palpitations.

Melissa had just been dumped by her husband of 18 years. He traded her in for a woman who was fifteen years younger. She had been stuck with the children and now their behaviors had become violent and destructive because their dad had abandoned them. Her ex- didn't even bother to come to the Behavioral Improvement Meetings at the school. Melissa could not afford to have them suspended again.

Jason never dated anybody his own age. He found women in their fifties to be strident and demanding. Jason found women in their early '30s to be optimum. He would nod his head as they blathered on about how they were changing the world. He would get what he wanted from them and then dump them. He considered it a pay-back for the crippling alimoney he was paying.

Robert and Linda, both in their mid-seventies, watched without comprehension as The City they lived in evaporated. First, there were just a few streets you shouldn't visit after dark. Then it was a lot of streets. Then it was not safe in the daylight.

Robert and Linda had always felt safe because they were in "the best" part of The City. There were countless boutique stores within a short walking distance of their apartment. Robert prided himself on knowing which shops always had the best bagels, the ripest tomatoes and the freshest sweet corn. Then the stores were closing down.

Robert was mad at the money grasping capitalists who closed stores because the stores were not making enough money. In Robert's opinion, they should GIVE food away. 

Robert had been sure that between his pension and what he had saved that they would have plenty for retirement. His anger was volcanic because the Uber trips to the closest Dollar Store were quickly depleting their savings.

Linda avoided talking with Robert because of his short fuse. It was hard to avoid somebody in a small apartment, but she managed.

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You don't have to look very hard to see that few people have a clue about the economy-of-forgiveness and how much it is costing them.

This is one of the tragedies of Woke-ism and Christianity's failure to clearly explain how Christ can make one's life better here, on this mortal plane.

 

The Economy of Forgiveness

The Science of Forgiveness

The Conditions for Forgiveness

Sins against God and Forgiveness