Jone Johnson Lewis, NoVES Leader

Relationships are central to an ethical human life, but we're only human and make mistakes.  Ethical relationships are a lifelong learning process, and often we act in those relationships in ways we regret.  Often others act in ways that trigger resentment in us, and get in the way of wanting to stay in relationship.  When is forgiveness appropriate, and how do we get to the point where we can forgive another? How might we act so as to elicit forgiveness?  How do we move beyond mistakes towards ever more ethical relationships?

"Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harboring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds. It is rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to understand and accept other people and ourselves." - Sidney and Suzanne Simon