Forgiveness

Forgiveness, it's easier said than done. As I was having supper at Jeani's house late week. Mitch are beloved friend is up from Texas for a visit. We were talking about something, and somehow I made a comment about my mother. I must have sounded bitter. Mitch simply said, "Forgive". I have been thinking about that simple word since. I thought I have forgave, but maybe deep down I have not. So that is just something I need to keep working on. Slowly, but surely.


On another note I spoke to my father last night. In request of my mother. She is applying for her citizenship. She's been in this country for the past 33 years legally. In my opinion she is one. But she needed to find out some information from him. So I am the goat. As I was asking him questions regarding the date they were married and the date they got divorced. I was thinking to myself " Why don't they know this?" Why wouldn't you remember those dates?" As my father mumbles some dates off, and says " I think those are it!" I also asked him, "How did you and mom meet?" Silence.. a long pause. He said "He couldn't remember, and that he can't remember every women he dated or married." I think to myself, and I just want to say, "What? Are you serious!" How can you not remember your first marriage. A women that you had 2 kids with. That you married, and you can not remember how you meet her. I don't get it. Seriously! See how hard it is to Forgive. Not just my mother, but my father as well.