[Spirit Dancer]

Forgiveness is at the heart of a healthy and happy life. Forgiveness protects relationships. It also protects the person who does the forgiving. Remember the story that psychiatrist and author Robert Coles tells
about Ruby, the little girl who integrated a Southern elementary school. Every day the federal marshals had to escort Ruby through a mob
of adults who spat at her and called her hateful names. Remarkably,
the five-year-old girl did not seem to be emotionally damaged by the ordeal, a fact that puzzled Cole until he discovered that Ruby prayed
every day asking God to forgive her persecutors . . . . Forgiveness is a method for giving love. It is a way of saying, "I am going to let go
of the wrong you did; I am not going to be bitter and I am going
to go on loving you anyway."

Bernie Siegel