Loving is Giving & Forgiving

"The shaping of more loving relationship patterns - is also a description of forgiveness...[the] remarkable parallels between forgiving and loving. Both are gifts, no commodities to barter. Forgiving is, after all, a specific kind of giving...Giving and forgiving, then are embedded in an economy of love...In an economy of love...forgiveness means surrendering our defenses, our excuses, even our wounds." (p. 230,231, The Beautiful Risk)