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Forgiving: Is Smart for Your Heart
Forgiving: Is Smart for Your Heart
Forgiving: Is Smart for Your Heart
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Forgiving: Is Smart for Your Heart

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We are a world in need of forgiveness. In our local and world communities, we see violence and escalating conflict. Author Carol Ann Morrow hopes to instill the virtue of forgiveness in young hearts. Young readers learn, along with little elfin friends, that sometimes we all need another chance.


LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 28, 2014
ISBN9781497696556
Forgiving: Is Smart for Your Heart
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R. W. Alley

R. W. Alley has illustrated a number of books featuring Paddington Bear. He lives in Barrington, Rhode Island, with his wife, author Zoë B. Alley.

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    Forgiving - R. W. Alley

    A Message to Parents, Teachers,

    and Other Caring Adults

    We’ve all heard the expression Forgive and forget. The real order of the universe, however, is Remember and forgive. The purpose of this book is to help you guide your children in that true order. This does not mean allowing and accepting injustice, injury, or abuse. Adults as well as children need to name, recognize, and challenge these. Forgiveness goes a step further. It is letting go of any need to get even. It is believing that every person is more than any single action—even actions that seem to cause pain and sadness.

    Children are very forgiving by nature. They continue along this path, unless we teach

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