I had dinner with some friends the other night who have five young children — four boys and one girl. I asked the oldest boy: “So, on an average day, how many times do you have to forgive your brothers? Maybe like seven times a day?”

He giggled hysterically and corrected me: “Noooo… a LOT more than THAT!”

So I asked him: “Ok, so how many times a day DO you have to forgive your brothers?”

At this, he scratched his head, thought for a moment, tallying everything up — and then said, with the profound wisdom only a child could reveal: 

“Every time.”

How many times a day should we forgive? Every time.

There’s no number. No limit. No conditional statements necessary. Just… 

Every time.