AFTER spending it seems like 10 lifetimes as a pastor/teacher alerting the church to its endless history of inflicting pain on the very persons they claim to love, I have come to the realization that instead of talking about repentance all the time, broken relationships might be better addressed from the other side: forgiveness. My whole idea behind this booklet is a peaceful meandering through my past, reading as I go, the monuments marking the battlefield where conflicts happened. As I go, I puzzle over the meaning of forgiveness and whether or not I have learned to cherish it for the divine gift it is.