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"Revenge is justice without love..and without love, it is meaningless."

It is Christmas once again, the ultimate celebration of love. And so it is but timely to start reflecting on forgiveness and reconciliation — the best forms of love there is. It is a common phenomenon that we get angry with people who have hurt us. After all, nobody deserves to be hurt, certainly not ourselves. But have you realized that anger isn’t exactly destroying the person who have hurt us? The only thing that it can destroy is ourselves.

Forgiveness is a release from this anger. Ironically, the most difficult person to forgive is still ourselves. This isn’t to say that we can all glorify egocentricity but it is the harsh truth. We are victimes of our own selves. Nobody else is responsible for the hurt that we experience. We choose to be hurting if we refuse to let go of this and forgive freely.

Christmas is a great time to start anew. Advent, after all, is the beginning of our liturgical year. And so it is high time to cvlean up our messes and pick up on the things that have been left hanging for decades. And maybe, just maybe, this is indeed going to be the most wonderful time of the year.

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