Forgiveness Requires More Than Making Peace With Someone Else
“If you’ll forgive you, I’ll forgive me.” Joan Blondell, We’re In the Money Actress Joan Blondell was a tough, sassy, gutsy blonde back in her film heyday of the 1930s. In the 1935 romantic comedy “We’re in the Money,” Blondell is making amends with leading man Ross Alexander when she says “If you’ll forgive you, I’ll forgive me.” It was an interesting twist. Two people are apologizing to each other and one of them is farsighted enough to realize that true forgiveness is more than just “I’ll forgive you, if you’ll forgive me.” After all, we sometimes find it much easier to forgive someone else than we do to forgive ourselves. And it’s pretty difficult for us to really have closure with a sore spot in a relationship until we have forgiven ourselves, too. For example, Ginger (Joan Blondell) and Carter (Ross Alexander) have done some pretty dumb, manipulative and selfish things during their on-screen relationship in the film. Our hope, as we’re watching, is that they wil...