In short story, “The Capital of the World,” Hemingway helps explain the need for teaching on forgiveness.
Madrid is full of boys named Paco, which is the diminutive of the name Francisco, and there is a Madrid joke about a father who came to Madrid and inserted an advertisement in the personal columns of El Liberal which said: PACO MEET ME AT HOTEL MONTANA NOON TUESDAY ALL IS FORGIVEN PAPA, and how a squadron of Guardia Civil had to be called out to disperse the eight hundred young men who answered the advertisement.
Life is relationships. In a fallen world, relationships are so often broken. We must understand what the Bible teaches about forgiveness.
