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Planting Forgiveness

8/3/2021

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By Eileen R. Kinch

“Forgiveness is the seed of peace,”
a woman in Indiana told me
after the Nickel Mines shooting,
clasping my hand in hers.
Her hands were warm and dry.
She had raised seven children.
Her eyes were bright.
She sat next to her husband,
who beamed at her like a newlywed.
They were ninety, both of them.

I stand now at an empty bed of earth
near the front steps, wondering
how to begin.
Forgiveness, a letting-go,
opening my hand
and dropping a seed
into the earth, perhaps every day.

Who knows what comes from
one seed?
A crop of peace—ripe tomatoes,
juicy and splitting,
or ground cherries, small fruits
in paper lanterns?
​
The harvest is easy, though.
It’s the planting that’s hard.

Eileen R. Kinch graduated from the Ministry of Writing programme at Earlham School of Religion, Indiana. She is the author of the chapbook Gathering the Silence. She lives and writes in Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania.


Planting Forgiveness appeared in the Christmas 2010 issue of The Hartford Catholic Worker newsletter.​
2 Comments
russell goings
16/3/2021 02:06:43 pm

YOU BIRTH THE GIFT OF WONDER AND GRACE

THE CHILDREN SING HIGH PRAISE TO THEIR SISTER!

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russell goings
16/3/2021 02:20:01 pm

ALWAYS THE NEXT MOMENT COMES,

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