Can you think of something that everyone needs? Something that would bless everyone who receives it? Forgiveness is a gift of mercy; a gift without which we cannot survive (eternally); a gift we all desperately need. Because, what do you have to do to be forgiven? Sin. And we all do that very well. As John Chrysostom said, “When humanity turned out ungrateful toward its benefactor, he thought us worthy of an even greater gift, forgiveness.”