Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

D. D). He was survived by his wife three children two grandchildren and one brother.

Lewis Benedictus Smedes (1921 — December 19 2002) was a renowned Christian author ethicist and theologian in the Reformed tradition. He was a professor of theology and ethics for twenty-five years at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena California.