Regarding Forgiving

"It's just that God began to act like Sam-I-Am from Green Eggs and Ham. Everywhere I turned there were helpful household hints on loving one's enemies ... and reminders that [not forgiving] usually doesn't hurt other people so much as it hurts you. In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. [My italics. I laughed out loud at this because it is so true.] [Other reminders] -- yet I kept feeling that I could not, would not forgive her in a box, could not would not forgive her with a fox, not on a train, not in the rain." (Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies)