2020: Forgiveness is the key to a Happy New Year
from Archbishop Cranmer:
As we turn the page of time once again, and the teens of this millennium turn to the 20s – roaring or restrained – it is a good opportunity to reflect and renew; to meditate on meaning and ponder purposes and new possibilities. Restoration and reconciliation are always a good theme, but perhaps never more so than at the dawning of a new year, when we sit and ponder how past wrongs can be bound and future hopes may be loosed in an ekklesia of promise and power. We spend all year thrashing out notions of virtue, debating conceptions of godliness and cavilling over the meaning of truth, but there is no greater psychic excitement than to transcend the limits of the rational.
If cleanliness is next to godliness, forgiveness dwells within it. It isn’t an outpouring of emotional fervency or ecstasy, but a very fleshly struggle to determine to reconcile ill thought and feelings with the divine command to wish goodness and prosperity upon those who, for one reason or another, don’t deserve it.
And there are quite a few of those.
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