It has been said that “Forgiveness is the act of admitting that we are like other people.”[1] Other people sometimes fall short of our expectations for them, and we sometimes fall short of their expectations for us. Other people make mistakes, but so do we. If we do not engage in the practice of putting down those stones – those stones that serve in some ways to protect us, by the way – we will have a hard time taking risks, being vulnerable, learning to trust again. We will close ourselves off to possibility – to the possibilities of new hope, fresh joy, and new life.

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[1] Christina Baldwin in Day by Day, ed. Rabbi Chaim Stern, Beacon Press, Boston, 1998, (164).