I was hurt by someone years ago.  Who it was or the situation doesn’t matter. Most of us know what it is to be deeply injured by someone.  Fortunately, I  knew  if I didn’t forgive the offender, I would never be whole.  I won’t say it was easy.  Forgiveness took years.  Â

In 1947, before I was a teenager, I saw a movie, Good News, staring June Allyson and Peter Lawford. The story was the traditional one about a college football hero who meets a librarian and decides to sweep her off her size 3 shoes. Allyson is reluctant, at first, and rebuffs Lawford