Restoration In Tree Hill

Time to confess one of my 'guilty pleasures'. I've started to watch One Tree Hill over the past couple of months. I like American TV and it provides a suitable antidote to the onset of the Sunday night blues.

Still, the happy news from tonight's episode was that all the unhappy couples seemed to sort out their differences and ended the episode reunited and restored.

One particular moment that got my attention was Lucas declaring that Brooke's affair with another guy didn't matter and that he was prepared to forgive.

Brooke's response?

'How can you? It's too much. There's too much to forgive. You can't forgive'

Lucas: 'I just did.'

Now, I mused on taking this blog in a number of different directions. I thought of taking the chance to slate sugarsweet endings on TV by shouting that I've been on the end of infidelity and it takes more than a few seconds to work out forgiveness. And how for my relationship there was no happy ending...

But the more profound comment to think about was that the writers of this episode of One Tree Hill seemed to somehow bring in an element of the forgiveness that as a Christian I believe God has for me.

That there have been many occasions, not least in the pain of my failed marriage when I have come before God to declare that there is no possible way that forgiveness can be given for me this time.

That there is too much to forgive. That He can't forgive this particular failing.

But He just did.