” . . . When you allow your enemy to stop being your enemy, all the rules change. Nobody knows how to act anymore, because forgiveness is an act of transformation. It does not offer the adrenaline rush of anger, nor the feeling of power that comes from a well-established resentment. It is a quiet revolution, as easy to miss as a fist uncurling to become an open hand, but it changes people in ways that anger only wishes it could.”
Barbara Brown Taylor, Episcopal priest, author, preacher, and professor, from her book The Healing Word: Gospel Medicine for the Soul