You who are letting miserable misunderstandings run on from year to year, meaning to clear them up some day...if you could only know and see and feel all of a sudden that time is short, how it would break the spell!~Phillips Brooks

     The story of the Hatfields and the McCoys is an intense lesson in unforgiveness. Generation after generation honored a long-standing feud. After a while, no one was quite sure how it all started. What seemed more important was how to continue it.

     Are there people in our lives toward whom we feel bitterness or hatred? Why? Do we remember why our gripe with them started? Does it really matter now? What are the benefits of hanging on to feelings of unforgiveness?

     It takes so much energy to remain cold and aloof to those people. We can be feeling relaxed and at peace until they walk into a room. Tonight we can ask ourselves if honoring a long-standing feud is wise or just willful.

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      Am I holding on to feelings of anger or bitterness when it would be wiser to forgive and let go? Tonight I can make a wise choice for my course of action. I choose to forgive and let go.