God wants us to be willing to forgive others as he has forgiven us. "This is well and good," we may be thinking, "but I’ve really been hurt and disappointed in life." "I’m tired of two-faced people." "Phonies go home," I sometimes feel like shouting. "How hard I try to be nice, and I know that I meet people more than halfway."

How blind we all are. How blind to our own inadequacies. So often we are the two-faced phonies. We frequently see ourselves through the eyes of our mother or father - people who understandably have some difficulty seeing our faults. Believe me, we have faults. If we were able to read the minds of oth…