Episode 88

“Oh, no, don’t cry, my sweetheart. Don’t cry, Jane. It’s OK, it’s OK. It’s just your mother. Forgive her, just the way you forgive anybody. Just forgive her and accept her apologies. I promise you, it won’t happen again,” she said softly, trying to soothe my heart and calm me down over the phone. Because I don’t know how soon I’ll be able to see her again. I realized that forgiveness heals and frees me from all this hate, from all this discontent, from all this annoyance that I hated feeling so much. I hated the feeling of hate. I hated the feeling of holding a grudge. I just needed to let it go. And that was what I did.

“OK, I’ve heard everything that you have said, OK. And Mama, I know she was just doing what she did to protect me, but at the same time, she hurt me in the process. But it’s all good now. Everything is in the past. And I’m really tired of carrying this grudge in me. So I let it go. Now I will go and see her very soon, when I’m settled in my new house,” I said, and she