Forgiveness: A Meditation

By John Calvin Weaver

Forgiveness is a literary mosaic-a collection of essays and stories that explore the many faces of forgiveness: tender, defiant, reluctant, liberating. Spanning voices real and imagined, from Maya Angelou to Viktor Frankl to Joy Harjo, the book meditates on how we carry harm, how we remember it, and whether we ever truly release it. Some chapters offer quiet grace; others burn with the fire of moral reckoning. But all ask the same unrelenting question: What do we do with the wounds that shaped us?

In its pages, Forgiveness does not offer easy absolution or sentimental closure. Instead, it honors complexity-the right to remember, the cost of compassion, the silence between apology and healing. With essays that stretch across generations, traumas, and faiths, and stories that pulse with lived emotion, the book invites readers to reconsider what it really means to let go-not to forget, but to live forward. This is not just a book about being forgiven. It is a testament to the human capacity to choose love, again and again, even after everything.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FK2VY1KL
• ISBN13: 9798294206598
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"