Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones by Hill Harper

Author:Hill Harper
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Motivational & Inspirational, Self-Esteem, Personal Growth, Self-Help
ISBN: 9781592407248
Publisher: Gotham Books
Published: 2013-11-05T08:00:00+00:00

THE RETURN

LETTER 22

Forgiving

The reward of the evil is the evil thereof, but whosoever forgives and makes amends, his reward is upon Allah.

—Koran 42:40

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

—Mahatma Gandhi

Hey, Brotha,

It’s about midnight in L.A., and it’s a little more than forty-eight hours since I got back from New York. But now I’m flying back to New York yet again to film some exteriors for CSI: NY. Just settled into my seat on the flight I’ve become all too familiar with, the red-eye from Los Angeles to New York. It leaves Los Angeles around eleven thirty P.M. and then arrives around seven thirty A.M. the next day in the Big Apple. Guess it’s obvious why they call it the “red-eye,” because your eyes tend to look bloodshot when you land, since you’ve slept so little on the plane. I never get any ZZZs, so I decided to write you a letter.

Taking off and climbing to thirty-five thousand feet, seeing the glinting lights on the ground get smaller and smaller, I imagine what you are doing right now. Are you asleep? Or are you under your covers with a rigged LED light reading a new book? So I pull out your latest letter, and damn. Shit, man, I guess when it rains, it pours. That letter you got from your locked-up brother, Vernon, must have come as a surprise. Did you even know Vernon was in a federal pen now?

I totally get how hearing from him made you feel. I know it hurts, but I actually think it’s a good sign. I’m gonna remind you of what you said about it in your letter:

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