Today, in a season when Covid 19 has brought up so much hardship for so many people, not only in illness and death but in businesses closing with the consequence of many made redundant, the word “forgiveness” is hard to live out in reality. Elspeth looks a little at its history, centres on the words of Jesus, discovers poetry and films that feature forgiveness, and even tells how she was able to forgive something very difficult only a few years ago.