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JamesMichael
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0 posted 2006-07-17 03:36 AM



Opportunities To Forgive

Perhaps I should have
gone to Louisville
with my Dad, all
those years ago.

Maybe we could have
come to an agreement,
now its too late
to know.

As long as I live,
I should take every
opportunity to forgive.

Perhaps I should have
gone to Louisville
with my Dad, all
those years ago.

It was a good
opportunity
to forgive.
Now I
know.

JamesLee
17July
2006



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rosepetals25
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1 posted 2006-07-17 05:34 PM


You know what they say about hindsight.  

I liked.

- Tara

El_Campeador
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2 posted 2006-07-17 05:37 PM


I've found forgiveness to be a very powerful tool in healing relationships.
Thank you for sharing.

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” –Robert Louis Stevenson

TinaTrivett
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3 posted 2006-07-17 05:38 PM


I was able to forgive my father before he passed. I'm sorry you didn't have the chance.  
JamesMichael
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4 posted 2006-07-18 03:49 AM


Thank you rosepetals25, El Compedor and Tina for the nice responses...
They say it is never to late to forgive...if we can't do it face to face we can ask God to assist us...James

aziza
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5 posted 2006-07-18 08:18 PM


I think your poem invites us to take the first step to forgiving others as we learn from your regret. And that is the power of poetry.

aziza

1slick_lady
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6 posted 2006-07-18 08:22 PM


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7 posted 2006-07-20 03:32 AM


well James, honestly I'm fine in my unforgiveness of my father and he could already be dead and I wouldn't know or care

sometimes it just isn't gonna happen, no matter what


LeeJ
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8 posted 2006-07-20 07:46 AM


Maybe we could have
come to an agreement,
now its too late
to know.

As long as I live,
I should take every
opportunity to forgive.

Perhaps I should have
gone to Louisville
with my Dad, all
those years ago.

It was a good
opportunity
to forgive.
Now I
know.


James, all I can say is AMEN to this...well thought out...no to people ever think alike, there will always be differences of opinions, but, to understand that, well, forgiveness is to me, such a tears of joy greatness...healthy and spiritual...


JamesMichael
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9 posted 2006-07-20 06:28 PM


Thank you aziza, 1slick lady, missing shadows and LeeJ for the nice responses...
I wouldn't forgive my dad over some disagreements we had, and I realized much later that one act of unforgiveness can lead to another and another; it can attach itself to your personality...my dad wanted me to go with him from Japan to Kentucky because his mom had passed away...when I declined, he took my younger brother...today I see the importance of forgiveness for peace of mind...James

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