Fresh Start: Choosing to Forget

Fresh Start: Choosing to Forget

There are some things I can’t erase from my memory. Hurtful words and actions against me or those I love are seared into my conscience. I don’t want to remember these things or feel the emotion that goes with remembering. I can’t recall what I had for lunch yesterday,...
Fresh Start: Forgives and Cleanses

Fresh Start: Forgives and Cleanses

I read a fascinating book called The Presidents’ Club, which explores how former presidents interacted with one another while in office and afterward. Some faced each other in elections where cutting personal accusations were made. Some ran against the record of the...
Fresh Start: Pardoned

Fresh Start: Pardoned

Mary Surratt made her way from the prison and climbed the ten-foot-high gallows with freshly dug graves waiting beneath. With her hands and feet in chains, she sat down in a chair along with three other conspirators. Although evidence was sketchy regarding her role in...
Fresh Start: Forgiveness

Fresh Start: Forgiveness

In the spring of 2005, Anna Lyndsey was working at her computer screen at the Department of Work and Pensions for the British government when her face began to burn. The pain continued, and eventually, Lyndsey learned that the painful reactions were caused by light....