Forgiving...or NOT Yet

RantWoman is having another spell of not knowing what to do with the blessings bestowed by those around her.

Recently, defined as time to season for a few weeks, the theme of Adult Education was "Forgiveness." Adult Education hour in RantWoman's Meeting sometimes offers the great gift of Friends speaking of things on their hearts without weight or opprobrium or agenda. RantWoman deeply appreciates that general ambiance.

RantWoman is not so sure about certain moments punctuating the ambiance. For instance, RantWoman has been reflecting on http://quakersusanne.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/the-hard-topic-of-forgiveness/

The flow of forgiveness moments that particular weekend in Adult Ed was such that RantWoman just blurted out "I would not mind not needing all 70 x 7 times of forgiving sometimes just for my own family."

Pedantic Friend: "Oh, in old Jewish tradition, 70x7 is just any arbitrary large number" RantWoman: "Look, I really do not care whether it's a precise number or an arbitrary one. The point is I am spending every forgiveness hit I have forgiving those close to me"

RantWoman heard some reference to infinity which may or may not be derivable from the "any arbitrary number." Miraculously RantWoman managed NOT to walk into a pedantry pissing contest, something like "well, if you had ever taken a Number Theory class you would know that there are several levels of infinity and if RantWoman says she is spending every bit of forgiveness she has, you don't even want to know what all that means. " NO RantWoman, if you want to talk about Number Theory, Adult Ed PROBABLY is not the most fertile ground...."

Back to forgiving

... and forgiving

and forgiving

and forgiving AGAIN!

. . . or . . . NOT yet?

Wait! Pedantic Friend is on RantWoman's list of people with whom RantWoman still needs to name problems before forgiveness is even going to make sense. Urk!

A nice blog post that says some of what is one RantWoman's mind only more nicely than RantWoman can:
http://peteraltschul.authorsxpress.com/2012/12/07/channeling/