In his excellent book, The Rest of God, Mark Buchanan tells the story of his wife’s grandmother who lived during the Canadian gold rush. These were the days when men and women would pan the rivers and bore into the hills in an attempt to strike it rich. “Gold fever” literally filled the air back then.
Read MoreI read a phrase recently that stopped me in my tracks. “We have a tendency to freeze people in time.”
The context of the phrase was a discussion about the challenge of forgiveness and the difficulty reconciliation. The point being that, when someone fails, disappoints, or hurts us we let that memory of what they did then define who they are now.
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