1. 1Forgiveness paints a picture of a world where suffering is over, loss becomes impossible and anger makes no sense. 2Attack is gone, and madness has an end. 3What suffering is now conceiv­able? 4What loss can be sustained? 5The world becomes a place of joy, abundance, charity and endless giving. 6It is now so like to Heaven that it quickly is transformed into the light that it reflects. 7And so the journey which the Son of God began has ended in the light from which he came.

2. 1Father, we would return our minds to You. 2We have betrayed them, held them in a vise of bitterness, and frightened them with thoughts of violence and death. 3Now would we rest again in You, as You created us.