{"id":3575,"date":"2014-09-13T22:42:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T02:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3575"},"modified":"2014-09-13T22:46:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T02:46:12","slug":"the-gift-of-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3575","title":{"rendered":"The Gift of Forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will forgive you<br \/>\nThe words are so small<br \/>\nBut there is a universe hidden in them<br \/>\nWhen I forgive you<br \/>\nAll those cords of resentment pain and sadness that had wrapped<br \/>\nthemselves around my heart will be gone<br \/>\nWhen I forgive you<br \/>\nYou will no longer define me<br \/>\nYou measured me and assessed me and<br \/>\ndecided that you could hurt me<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t count<br \/>\nBut I will forgive you<br \/>\nBecause I do count<br \/>\nI do matter<br \/>\nI am bigger than the image you have of me<br \/>\nI am stronger<br \/>\nI am more beautiful<br \/>\nAnd I am infinitely more precious than you thought me<br \/>\nI will forgive you<br \/>\nMy forgiveness is not a gift that I am giving to you<br \/>\nWhen I forgive you<br \/>\nMy forgiveness will be a gift that gives itself to me<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu, <em>The Gift of Forgiving<\/em>, p. 26-27<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will forgive you The words are so small But there is a universe hidden in them When I forgive you All those cords of resentment pain and sadness that had wrapped themselves around my heart will be gone When I forgive you You will no longer define me You measured me and assessed me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}