Forgivness

So in the last post i mentioned forgivness, but looking back i realized that i had not mentioned it. So the story goes like this:
My college roomate and i hardly talked the last two years of college, i am not sure what had happened, but we had a falling out. God brought me to denver to teach and her to denver for grad school. But who would have thought that we would even run into each other in a city of 3 million people. Well, God would know and he knows the importance of forgivness.
I have been going to a church (a good ole CRC church, where people are welcoming and it is small and they invite me for lunch) and the first day i go to the church i talk to the preacher, who is only 26, then he mentions my roomates name and i am shocked, i see her out of the corner of my eye, but i can't be sure, so i ignore it. Going home i think about the awkwardness and i wonder if i should go to this church, but i figure we are both in a differnt place, there is no reason why we can't heal this relationship. I get to church 3 weeks later and we are eating at a potluck, she pulls me aside and says "can we talk" i agree and we go to another part of the church. She says to me, " I am really sorry about under grad..." I smile, my heart is warmed, how can someone find enough courage to appologize for someting that was not entirely her fault. So i contiue to say that it is not all her fault and that she should not worry about it. But she insits on the appology, i simply tell her i forgive her and then tell her we should go for coffee or something some time. We exchange phone numbers, this realationship is on its way to restoration. I am simply amazed because if you would have asked me a year ago, i would have said, good riddens, but God works in the hearts of his people in the most unique ways. We both had to forgive, but i felt like i had recived so much grace, she simply appoogized and i accepted, but for some reason i felt like that senario was harder for her then me. it is hard to accept an appologiy out of the blue, but it is even harder to offer an appology in a situation that lasted so long. One day we will go for coffee or to a movie or something, but the first step as been done and i am amazed by our creator.