Forgiveness – A One Time Event or a Process?

About 5 years ago, I came across the words below … today I read them again and realized again how much wisdom they contain.

“Forgiveness is a brutal mathematical transaction done with fully engaged faculties. It’s my pain instead of yours. I eat the debt. I absorb the misery I wanted to dish out on you, and you go scot-free.

Beware the forgiveness that is tendered soon after injury; be suspicious. Real forgiveness needs a time lag, for it is wrought in private agony before it ever comes to public amnesty. All true acts of courage are thus done in secret.” - Andree Seu

Forgiveness is a process, not a one time event.

Your thoughts?