Forgiveness
May 13, 2008 by eclexia
Well, that may not be the point of the poem I read today, but when I read it, and my brain did its thing of connecting the feeling I got when I read it with any similar feelings, I ended up with a hodgepodge in my head with these three things overlapping, and the word “forgiveness” holding them all together:
Matthew 18:21,22 (Peter and Jesus)
I Corinthians 13 (Paul)
“Addition” (Langston Hughes)
Addition
7 x 7 + love =
An amount
Infinitely above:
7 x 7 - love.
(from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, p. 229)
Forgiveness and love are all about the heart.. I guess anything of real value is about the heart.
KansasBob, I have been thinking about your comment all day. Thank you.