Calamities of the past.

What does forgiveness have to do with it?

Salman Rushdie writes in his book, Knife, "I'll just say: we would not be who we are today without the calamities of our yesterdays."

Okay. I get that. Maybe that's true, but then again maybe it isn't.

One of my favorite bumper stickers says, "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience sometimes comes from bad judgment."

Okay, I get that too, but then again what about forgiveness?

Forgiveness, according to Gary Renard, a teacher of A Course In Miracles, is "being willing to give up making other people and circumstances responsible for your unhappiness."

Okay so maybe the calamities of yesterday do not have the last word about our happiness and peace. Maybe it's up to us to make what we will of them.

What, if anything, haunts you, and can you ever forgive them?