{"id":9407,"date":"2021-10-26T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/?p=9407"},"modified":"2022-06-13T15:57:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T15:57:05","slug":"forgiveness-the-ultimate-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/forgiveness-the-ultimate-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgiveness: the ultimate act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe modern-day world is a place where none of us can put a foot wrong for fear of having an accusatory finger pointed at us and some form of \u2018blame\u2019 hurled in our direction.<br \/>\nBut is it right that we are so intolerant of a person who makes an honest mistake?<\/p>\n<p>In truth, I have to say 'no'. Such a scenario leads to intolerable pressures being heaped on the shoulders of an individual or an organisation, lies being told \u2013 and cover-ups being perpetrated. And don\u2019t we see these things happening before our very eyes on a near-daily basis?<\/p>\n<p>The present state of affairs came into sharp focus for me last week, when I listened to a news report and suddenly thought to myself \u2018why are we all so unwilling to forgive?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>For that is what our society is today: angry, volatile, uncompromising and deeply unforgiving.<\/p>\n<p>I hear it all the time about people who have been released from prison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should rot in hell,\u201d is the shout whenever a former offender commits another crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTh...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Continue Reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Subscribe to one of our subscription packages<br \/>\nto get digital access to our articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Unlimited digital access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"headerbutton1\" href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/subscriptions\/\">Start a Subscription Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/login-member\/\">Login<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The modern-day world is a place where none of us can put a foot wrong for fear of having an accusatory finger pointed at us and some form of \u2018blame\u2019 hurled in our direction. But is it right that we are so intolerant of a person who makes an honest mistake? In truth, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":9412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1546,1798],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portfolio","category-homepage","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2021\/10\/MinaSmallman.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9407"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9419,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407\/revisions\/9419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}