Forgiveness Miracles

In this week's religion class, we discussed the miracles performed by Jesus Christ in the New Testament. You know, healing the sick, causing the blind to see and the lame to walk and the deaf to hear, raising people from the dead, and forgiving. For some reason, I had never thought about those forgiveness incidents (woman taken in adultery, man sick with palsy, etc.) as "miracles." That label is more often given to events that are more tangible. However, to begin anew, to start afresh, to be clean from the sins and mistakes of yesterday, that is a miracle. Also, to see eye to eye with someone else, to put grievances behind you, to look forward and not backward, to forgive yourself and press confidently on, that too is miraculous.

I am grateful for a discussion of miracles, particularly miracles of forgiveness.