A newlywed complained to his father making these considerations: “Dad, I can’t put up with my wife any more. I want to kill her, but I’m afraid they’ll arrest me.  Do you think you can help me?”  The father answers:  “Yes, I can help you.  But you have to do something in compensation. You must make peace with her, so no one will think that you were the one who killed her when she dies. You have to take care of her. You must be kind, appreciative, patient, show her affection, be less selfish, more fair, more careful in listening to her.  Do you see this powder? Every day, you must put a pinch of it on her food until she slowly dies.”

After 30 days, the son goes back to his father and says: “I don’t want her to die any more.  Now I love her.  What can I do to keep the effect of the poison from killing her?”

The father answers him:  “Don’t worry!  What I gave you was cassava starch.  She won’t die because the poison was in you!”

When we bear grudges we slowly kill ourselves.  What we wish for us all is that we may make peace with ourselves and with those who have wounded us. That we may treat others as we would like to be treated. That we may take the initiative to love, to give, to offer, to serve, to forget ourselves… instead of always wanting to win, to be served, to think only of our own interests and to take advantage of others. The grace of our Good God comes to us every day, but we don’t know if we still have enough time to purify our hearts with the help of this antidote which is Forgiveness.

Do you know the relationship there is between your two eyes? They blink together, move together, cry together, see things together and sleep together.  Even though they never see each other.  Friendship should be exactly like that!