GRACE TUCKED IN LETTERS

A lot knew about my story but for today’s celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus, I want to take myself back to the time when my life absolutely turned topsy-turvy and what really transpired in between that day and today. Seven years ago, I encountered a fatal accident and were it not for the people who cared enough to rush me to the hospital despite of the fact that I was lying at the highway unconscious, I would not have lived. Accordingly, my head CT scan result revealed an internal hemorrhage and a skull fracture that prompted an urgent surgery. Lo and behold, I survived. I could remember vividly when I woke up inside a white room and my first complaint was “I am hungry.” I was still unaware of everything that had happened till my brother explained to me on how I survived the accident and was at the moment in the ICU as a post-op patient. Initially, nothing sank into my senses. Days turned to weeks, when I was already in the private room and both of my catheter and N...

It is easy to forgive when the person acknowledges the mistakes he or she had done against you, repents and asks for forgiveness. But, what if the person will display no signs of remorse? What if he or she will act as if blinded of your hurts? How about if he or she can still flash the widest smile and there you are containing your emotions attempting to explode? Will forgiveness make sense if you extend it? How about if he or she keeps on moving in the cycle of worldly grief? Just being sorry whenever he or she is caught then later does the same thing all over again. How can you outstretch undeserved kindness and love? More so, how will you deny yourself of all the justified reasons to actually hate and get bitter, to take a vengeful act for that matter, to return the same kind of hurt or perhaps more than that? Will you? I, myself, am never an exception. Despite the knowledge of what the Bible commands “to forgive not seven times but seventy-seven times,” I am limited. As a pe...