Peace Treatments

Was pondering about forgiveness again. I move back and forth between two "world's" in my conflict work - the  secular world and the believer's world.  I use the term world because each holds to a worldview when it comes to forgiveness and why it's "good for us".  Having studied and pondered forgiveness from both perspectives, it grieves me to see that the prevalent worldview of the one has infiltrated the other.  Take, for example, the statement above.  That is a very common perspective on why we ought to forgive.  It's therapeutic, psychologically and emotionally liberating, and hence a good idea.  This is a common argument to rationalize forgiveness from a secular point of view, and now seems to have become popular reasoning amongst believers too, only with the added claim that usually goes something like this: .....  "besides, the bible says if you don't forgive, neither will you be forgiven". The trouble...

I've been restless for a really long time. In fact, I suspect I was born restless. Always, there's been a sense of something more than this, and I don't mean the obvious, as in eternity and being homesick for eternity.  Something more, here, in this life.  Always, there's been an intense longing to "help", to be a difference.  For the longest time, in my de-personalized days, I didn't give a crap, but even under that layer of deception, when the enemy tried to take me out, the core of me was still the core of me, and that core has always seen and cared deeply about injustice and inequity...and wanting to do something about it is what has always had me restless...either that, or I just simply bore easy (hence my tendency to escape into frivolous entertainment) The restlessness has often compelled me to strive forward, in search of whatever "it" is that I think I can fix, when inside I perceive that I ought to be waiting.  Waiting is rea...