Not a DoC-centric topic, but I thought I'd throw this out to the board:

I'm on deployment to Oklahoma, and was soaking in the hotel hot tub when I decided to go through my forgiveness list. For me, that's the list I go through every so often of people I need to forgive (and it sometimes includes people who need to forgive me, just to be fair.) Anyway, as I was pondering each individual, I realized that ALL of them came down to this: whatever their transgressions, their behavior hurt me because they weren't who I thought or hoped they were. There in the bubbling water, I realized I needed to let go of these hopes and expectations and simply accept these people for who they are and let all the other stuff go.

I was kind of stunned by this revelation -- not about the need for forgiveness or acceptance, but that EVERY one of them came down to the same thing. 

I know we have a lot of clergy on the board, and a lot of long-time Christians, so I ask: is this common?

Quite an interesting observation, vanesa. As we used to say at LTS back in the day, "That will preach!"