Sometimes simple just works. (Then why do I always complicate things?)
Last night we had a simple dinner, and everyone loved it. A simple chicken casserole, pears, green beans, bread. Simple.
Then Ben did the lesson for FHE. Simple.
Beautiful. Amazing. Stunned parents smiled at each other (as we dodged projectile Legos from Sam) over the person our oldest is becoming.
As part of his lesson, Ben shared the following poem he found in the November 2011 New Era. It's simple....and beautiful.... and amazing.....and it contains everything I want to remember and want to become:
Forgiveness
To forgive is not to forget.
To forgive is really to remember,
That nobody is perfect,
That each of us stumbles
When we want so much to stay upright,
That each of us says things we wish we had never said,
That we can all forget that love is more important than being right.
To forgive is really to remember,
That we are so much more than our mistakes,
That we are often more kind and caring than we think we are,
That accepting another’s flaws can help us accept our own.
To forgive is to remember,
That the odds are pretty good
that we might soon need to be forgiven ourselves,
That life gives us more than we can handle gracefully.
To forgive is to remember,
That we have room in our hearts to begin again,
And again,
And again.
—-Sydni Masoncup
November 2011 New Era
It seems like it should be so simple, this whole figuring-life-out thing, but it feels so complicated. Here's to more simple in my life, and in yours, too.
