No Future Without Forgiveness - Desmond Tutu
That is my first book for 2013. Phenomenal wisdom, to say the least. I always thought I'd got a grip on this concept of 'forgiveness', until I read Desmond Tutu's account of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's work in South Africa. The '70 X 7' rule in the Bible has always made for interesting reading, but in the case of South Africa, some of the atrocities to be forgiven, even once, were heavy burdens - to bear or lay down - depending on which side of the understanding you look at it from. I now think I understand a little bit, what Jesus meant when at the cross, he prayed "Father forgive them. . ." It was a phenomenal act of forgiveness. Tutu's account helped me to look deeper into me and realize that I don't really know myself as well as I thought I do. "There is an awful depth of depravity to which we can all sink, that we do possess an extraordinary capacity for evil. . . " or ". . . the nobility of His hu...