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“He took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. ‘After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,’ he reflected; but the worst of it was that May’s pressure was already bearing down on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep.

“No doubt she simply echoed what was said to her, but she was nearing her twenty-second birthday, and he wondered at what age ‘nice’ women began to speak for themselves.[…. ] It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman’s eyes, and bid her look forth on the world. But how many generations of the women…had descended bandaged to the family vault?”

“‘Do you know what this showed me? What this means, Hannah? This is proof that Jesus does not expect us to forgive in our own strength - that the hurts in this world are not healed by us, not forgiven by us, but by His great love. Jesus said to love your enemies… and with that command He gives us the love to do it.” pg 386