Forgiveness recognizes that we all are at a crossroads, faced with two choices, two paths:

1. Grow old, angry, resentful, bitter at those who have wounded you, and allow them to steal the light in your soul and accept defeat

2. Grow happy, joyful, and stay eternally young and youthful, with a heart good enough to wipe clean all hurt — to choose to be the healing force this world so desperately needs.

We will all hurt others and be hurt by others. It is inevitable. Do we allow the hurt to claim the throne of our hearts, or do we allow the benevolent usurper of forgiveness to overthrow that malefic tyrant and restore goodness to our own personal universe?