Stories of forgiveness: Four people choose different paths in their search for renewal
Despite the divisions and the discord, this is still a different time, a new year, a season for reconsideration and renewal. This year, therefore, we offer stories of forgiving — tales of people who overcame betrayal, who received an unexpected gift of financial absolution, who decided to rekindle a brutally severed relationship. And a story about why there sometimes is no path to forgiveness — and perhaps should not be.
“We are pleased to inform you that you no longer owe the balance on the debt referenced above,” it read. “Our forgiveness of the amount you owe is a no-strings-attached gift.” Now, a nonprofit called RIP Medical Debt was writing to tell her that the $5,000 bill from one of her hospital stays had been forgiven.It sounded too good to be true, but it wasn’t. The New York-based group buys up medical debt from collection agencies and hospitals for pennies on the dollar, identifying accounts that belong to cash-strapped patients all over the country and absolving their debts.
The money represented only a small fraction of the roughly $750,000 that she owes. Cook doesn’t know how she’ll ever pay off the rest. But knowing that strangers came together to help relieve her burden meant more than anything else. There was the doctor at the National Institutes of Health who wrongly insisted that her second child didn’t have the same disease as her first. The neighbor who suddenly stopped permitting her son to hang out with Whitesides’ boy. The fellow diner at the Benihana in Bethesda who wouldn’t stop asking Whiteside and her husband intrusive questions at the worst possible time.When Whiteside, 85, and her husband, Daniel, an official with the U.S.
She didn’t let the wounds eat away at her. She buried her children and eventually found a way to keep going, selling real estate and helping run a soap opera merchandise company. In 2017, her husband, Daniel, died. What brought them there was the wife’s affair. She had told her husband about it while they were at their cabin earlier that year, and he was so distraught, he drove off in the middle of the night — but came back before their two kids woke up so they wouldn’t suspect anything.A few miserable months later, they found Mayer, who practices discernment counseling, a type of couples therapy designed to help spouses decide — in five sessions or less — whether to divorce.
“If we were going to try to work this out,” the husband said, “I had to forgive her.” He realized he had forgiveness to earn, too, for burying his feelings.
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