Forgive Us Our Debts

My friend’s father received his theology degree late in life, after two careers. He loved to translate the Bible from the language in which it was written. Here is his version of the portion of the Lord’s Prayer that we know as, “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.”

Untie the tangled threads of destiny that bind and imprison us, as we release others from their mistakes and errors of judgment.

You write it: How would your life be different if you “released others from their mistakes and errors of judgment”?