Just that hanging on to anger and hatred will destroy you. You don't need to have a Biblical background to know that. Anger and hatred have destroyed even good Christian men.

I will have to walk through this exercise in forgiveness more than once in the days ahead, for both the surgeon and my parents. This anger didn't grow up overnight and it's not going to fade overnight.

It's best that I resolve this before my next operation....if any. You never know when I may be put to sleep in an OR and called to account by my Maker. Holding onto anger has other side effects as well. I've heard it said that depression is suppressed anger.

There is a thing more crippling than cerebral palsy: the prison of your own mind.