Morning Meditation: Reconciliation and Forgiveness

Father, forgiveness is not a feeling — it is a flood. When the prophet Amos stood before Israel, he did not whisper. He thundered. "Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream." Not a trickle. Not a polite gesture across a church lobby. A river — the kind that reshapes the land it touches, that carves new channels through stone and carries away what was dead and rotting on the banks.…