Innocuous Gossip
Harmless Road Rage
Secretly rooting for Thanos because that man had a point
I hope heaven forgives me for swearing because I stayyyy doing it
Wouldn’t it be something if heaven forgave us for the potential we don’t use? The chances we don’t take, despite knowing that we could potentially be good at the things we want to do. I hope for absolution for all of us for the opportunities we don’t take up. Opportunities to grow, to learn, to love, to be kind.
I hope heaven forgives the silent, “When is my turn?” when something wonderful happens for somebody else. That heaven understands that we are so happy for them, and nobody deserves it better, but we are also waiting for our wins. I hope heaven understands that these are just fleeting feelings.
I hope we are forgiven for our shortcomings. As friends, as family members, as colleagues, as partners. Forgiven for the things we do (or don’t) because we cannot be anything more than that which we are.
It is my hope that heaven forgives us for the grief we cannot carry for our friends, the struggles which we cannot comprehend, even when they are repeated to us.
May the sin of our ingratitude to our parents be written off. May heaven also write off the lack of empathy for the relative who keeps going back and for the colleague who doesn’t seem to get it.
I hope heaven forgives our faltering faith. That it receives it not as doubt but as an effort to understand better. That in believing, we seek a deeper comprehension.
I hope heaven forgives the scriptures that we bypass in order to be good to one of God’s kids. That heaven understands that kindness is more hallowed than compliance.
I equally hope heaven forgives the ignorance we display in its name. The judgements we pass as if only we have the right to moral judgment.
I hope heaven forgives our questions
Our humanity and how imperfectly laden it is with faults
Our silence when we run out of faiths to exercise
I know there’s a fire and brimstone God that lives somewhere in the Bible. I also know that there is a God of kindness, a God of forgiveness, a God who knows we are just human and doing our best, even on days when we don’t.
