Forgiveness...

After mass past Sunday and after reading a friend's blog, made me think about forgiveness.

As my granny once told me.... saying sorry means nothing, asking for forgiveness.... now that is what we have to do.

This notion of "to forgive and forget" can be very difficult because all of us have pride. Forgetting what people have done to hurt us can be difficult, but that takes time. It may never be erased from our memories, but the thing is to move on. These thoughts can come back to haunt us or even worse, it can eat us up inside. So forgive people and if need to, ask for forgiveness. Instead of saying sorry, say "Please forgive me". This takes more out a person when he/she is in the wrong and probably this person will be sincere.