I love Chaplain George's positive approach to negativism by asking for a positive rap. . I always cover forgiveness of ones’ self and of others as Jesus forgave those who crucified him, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do”, and not to resent or hate as Mary Baker Eddy tells us in her article “Taking Offense” and then state how foolish it is to punish oneself because of another's ignorance and be ready to forgive before the offense occurs. Here is one man's response: “I am writing this to share what I have learned about forgiveness and how it has profoundly changed my life. At age 8 I got involved with drugs and at 19 I became a father to my first child. Although I loved my daughter and her mother I was not a perfect father and was often abusive toward both fueled by alcohol and drugs. The mother left me when the girl was 6 months and after 10 years of drugs and alcohol I got $20,000 behind in child support. I was arrested in 2016 on a drug charge and while in jail found out that my first love in high school had been murdered by a friend of mine who had stabbed her to death in front of her 2 sons while pregnant with another son. I was consumed with rage and wanted to kill him myself. I finally concluded that killing him would not bring my loved one back and would hurt those who loved me and depended on me. I tried to understand what had caused him to kill her and recalled my rage and fights with my mother. I prayed many days and nights and thought how Christ asked God to forgive those who were crucifying him and began considering forgiving him and realized I was only hurting myself by holding on to those ill feelings. I wrote him a letter forgiving him which I never sent but which comforted me. At this point I received a summons to court exactly 1 year after the murder of my first love for the 10 years of child support I owed. I prayed to God to help me get a job so I could “man up” and pay the $20,000 I owed which would take me 15 years. I saw my child's mother just before the court and told her of my addiction and how I planned to start paying as soon as I got out and got a job. Waiting in court I was later approached by the Attorney General who told me the mother had forgiven me the $20,000 and had faith I would stay on the road to recovery saying “that’s what we’re here for” and “to help someone else out”. I never dreamed of this outcome and realized that just as it was God who put it in my heart to forgive the man who had murdered my first love, I was forgiven. The 15 years of payments was taken care of in 1 day and it was God’s way of telling me that it was because of my forgiveness for another, I was able to find forgiveness for me. Hal Shrewsbury