A few weeks ago, I spent Shabbos with my cousins on my mother’s side. My mother has ten siblings, so we have a really big family with cousins of all different ages. I usually get along better with some of the older ones, and we can hang out for hours. But this time, some of the younger kids kept bothering us, and I was getting really annoyed.

As I was leaving the Friday night meal, I looked down at my Shalom for Charlotte bracelet and thought, “If the Herzberg family can forgive, so can I.”

The next day, I tried really hard to be kind to each of my cousins. It reminded me that sometimes forgiveness is simply choosing to let things go and treat people with kindness anyway.