On Forgiveness - A Question Essay
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    How can I forgive people who will not forgive me?
    I can feel their hate.
    I don't want to hate them, but they make me feel uncomfortable.

    If I want to forgive and forget someone who doesn't want to forget
    me, how to deal?  How to cope?  Do I run?  Do I hide?

    The POWER of unforgivingness is what I have to deal with.  I am made
    to feel that I owe them something, some restitution, some money,
    *something*.

    When others fail to forgive me, they are trespassing against me, 
    because they are making me feel debt where debt could be forgiven.
    The failure to forgive tresspasses is the essence of hell.

    But there is monetary debt and societal debt and personal debt and
    love.  (Love debt?)  Does paying off a debt imply releasing self from
    guilt?  Or are there debts from which one is never released?  For ex-
    ample, the debt owed to God for giving (forgiving?) life?

    Does God, then, forgive me my life, allow me to live it without having
    to constantly owe Him something?  Or does He intend for me to live in
    the hell of constantly owing?  Is life a tresspass against God?

		--David Eisenstein