I'm scrolling through shorts on YouTube and came across a channel called NurseHadley. She's an hospice nurse.
The short I saw referenced a man who was dying who was having a lot of anxiety that medication didn't touch. She called his doctor and he said, "What did the Chaplain say?" She said he wasn't religious and she wasn't sure what he was going to do.
The doctor told her to please just call the Chaplain anyway.
The Chaplain came and the patient said it was okay for them to pray and right away after, the Chaplain said, "Sir, you have some unfinished business on this earth, don't you?"
And the patient said, "I don't know what you're talking about."
She says the Chaplain left and she was still there and she was still trying to give him medicine for his anxiety. He finally turned to her after a couple of hours and said he needed to call his daugher.
She says he called his daugher and apologized for everything he had done to her and she forgave him and then without medication he was able to pass peacefully.
My thoughts on this:
Is forgiveness a force that is recognized at death as something that is given to the wronged party as a gift?
In other words, if the one that wronged someone asks for forgiveness, are they actually giving the wronged person an opportunity for a gift (in the afterlife)?
I know this is a heavy topic on the anniversary 9/11, but I though maybe this man was actually asking for her to forgive him in order to pass on a gift to her as a way of saying he's truly sorry and the only way for her to receive that gift was for his daughter to forgive him.