Lots and lots

This is not really about forgiveness, unless you need it to be about forgiveness.  Once again, it is about counting... or more specifically, not needing to count.  I had a wonderful meeting yesterday with a therapist colleague who has been a therapist for years.  While he talked about wanting to teach what he can about the therapist craft to new therapists or therapists-to-be, and cited the 10,000 hours of practice principle, I left him remembering how he taught a class I took in grad school, and his openness, and how I could call him for lunch and have conversations like this one.  

Forgiveness takes lots and lots

Of practice.

Jesus said it:

Seventy seven times

Or perhaps

Seventy times seven.

Anyway,

Or any-hoo,

As my father used to say,

Lots and lots,

No matter how

We translate the number

From the Greek:

Lots and lots.

We must forgive

Until we simply lose track

Of the count

And it becomes

As natural

As breathing.