Saturday, November 10, 2018

we must forgive – v2


we must forgive
and forget as we are able
if we want to be happy
joyful in this life

we must apologize
for the harm we have created
for the sin in our lives
for the joy we have taken

we must forgive
our enemies, our neighbors
for the harm that was created
even ourselves, as we are able

we must forget
our desire for revenge
to leave to God the judgment
for the harm that was created

we must forgive
and forget as we are able
if we want to be happy
joyful in this life



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November 10, 2018
Rev Martin Niemöller Quote
Edmund Burke Quote
November 10, 2018
Summary of Kristallnacht poems
November 10, 2018
Five years before Kristallnacht
(the photo was in Life Magazine in 1933, after all…)
edited November 10, 2018
Black and White – v5
(editing V2)
edited November 10, 2018
The Granary – v3
edited April 25, 2015
Black and White – v2
September 4, 2006 19:05
Black and White
edited April 25, 2015
The Granary – v2
January 30, 2010
The Granary
This poem is about my memory,
of the jarring sensation
seeing a photograph circa 1994,
of one of the all-time
great pictures, capturing evil,
before it rose up to full flowering
of Joseph Goebbels,
in 1933 at the League of Nations
Life Magazine article about the photo
on display at The Granary Gallery
on Martha’s Vineyard
taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898 - 1995),
a master of black and white. Photojournalist of the century, http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9911/eisieintro.htm.
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edited November 10, 2018
a lesson I have not learned – v4
October 23, 2014
a lesson I have not learned – v3
(editing original again)
edited November 10, 2018
we must forgive – v2
edited October 22, 2014
we must forgive
edited November 10, 2018
we are to forgive – v2
new October 22, 2014
we are to forgive
edited November 10, 2018
to forgive to forget – v2
new October 22, 2014
to forgive to forget
edited November 9, 2018
to forgive without forgetting – v4
edited October 3, 2015
to forgive without forgetting – v3
(editing version 2)
edited October 22, 2014
to forgive without forgetting – v2
new October 21, 2014
to forgive without forgetting
based on profile quote of
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
“Forgiving is not forgetting; it's actually remembering—
remembering and not using your right to hit back.”
Mpho and Desmond Tutu for the #Forgiveness Challenge
Forgiveness Challenge
The Book of Forgiving
by Archibishop Desmond Tutu
and Reverend Mpho Andrea Tutu
and story of Corrie ten Boom about forgiving former Nazis
&
edited October 20, 2014
a lesson I must learn
edited October 20, 2014
a lesson I have not learned – v2
October 17, 2014
a lesson I have not learned
“The first to apologize is the bravest.
The first to forgive is the strongest.
The first to forget is the happiest.”

author unknown
seen 10/17/2014
post 10/14/2014
on Rachel’s Challenge
and see
The first to forget is the happiest –
&
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edited November 10, 2018
the crowd wearing yellow stars – v2
July 13, 2013
the crowd wearing yellow stars
inspired by the book,
Yellow Star,
by Jennifer Roy
& page 11 – Chapter “February 1940” and poem, “Relocation”
& pages 218-222 – Chapter “Winter 1945” and poem, “An Amazing Story”
&
edited November 10, 2018
Their Haunting Witness – v2
September 3, 2010
Their Haunting Witness
on remembering
the United States Holocaust Museum
in emails today
&
edited November 10, 2018
so we would never forget – v2
October 16, 2015
so we would never forget
Elie Wiesel
and Holocaust
Blog Action Day 2015 – “Raise Your Voice”
October 16, 2015

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