Forgiveness Chit

As a way to encourage facing anger, the poison of holding grudges, learning to manage conflict and the power of forgiveness and love, some of us developed this little chit for use among jail and prison inmates.

Inmates must live with each other 24 hours a day, seven days each week, under trying conditions, when they often have not managed to get along well with others previously. This is an enormous challenge.

We have a residential unit at the Fayette County jail that our SGN volunteers have now been working with for nearly a year, teaching these skills and tools of the Wisdom traditions, via many methods, meditation, parable, poetry, prayer, bible study, story, writing, awareness and videotape. We teach the basic principles of all Wisdom traditions, and tolerance and understanding for those who believe differently.

In our program we teach that jail or prison is a “Fierce Landscape,” in which one either dies spiritually or grows. For more information about the Spiritual Growth Network of Kentucky, see lexpages.com/SGN

FORGIVENESS CHIT by ________________________to__________

During the next week, I will overlook, forgive, not pay attention to two occasions of your being a JERK. I do this because I know that I also have a blind side and can be a jerk without realizing it, and because I want LOVE and FORGIVENESS to be themes of my life.

I want to live every day by choosing these.

The WWF Forgiveness Chit was developed to encourage growth skills in a jail or prison setting in a residential community. Copies were provided each inmate for their use. This helped make their getting along fun.

We have also found the use of these chits to be loving and humorous among families and spouses.

You may support this jail ministry by adding this to your next order. We sell sheets of TEN of these cards, for $3.00, to support this ministry. All proceeds from the sale of these cards are used for writing materials and books for this interfaith ministry. Thank you for your assistance.

You may order these from

BAUTE PUBLISHING

4080 Lofgren Court

Lexington, Ky 40509-9520

Email: paschal@winwinfinesse.com

When adding this to your order, please add $1.00 for postage and handling. Separate order, please add $2.50 for postage and handling. Allow 2-3 weeks for U.S.A. delivery.

Thank you for your order.

Paschal, Mike, John, Lance and our SG community in FF unit in the Fayette County Detention Center, Lexington, Kentucky