Forgiveness

“Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.”

(Luke 23:34)

Forgiveness, forgiveness

hoisted aloft

in agony

near death

and from his lips

come words of forgiveness

Of all the things he could have said

the litany of woes and sorrows he could have recited

the folk he might have railed at

the folk he might have cursed

But instead, he implores forgiveness

Hallelujah! What a Saviour!

“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing”

Those words are for you – and for me

Do you know it?

Dare you believe it?

Forgiven.

We are forgiven

By the one who hung on a cross and died

so that we might be forgiven.

THAT is forgiveness.

“Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing”