Forgiveness

Emotionally painful or wounding events from any time in our lives can motivate us to make self-defeating choices to manage painful or confusing feelings. Look back at your life, can you relate? Have you pursued things in your life that you hoped would be fulfilling, but ultimately leave you feeling empty? Then, we turn to socially acceptable behaviors to comfort ourselves or escape from negative events and everyday life pressures. Behaviors that oppose our conscience. When we stop relying on ourselves and the ways of the world to find love, peace, healing, and significance, we are ripe to receive The Truth. May the veil from our eyes be removed, and we perceive and understand The Truth.

Perhaps, The Truth starts with sincere forgiveness. It frees us and provides relief from willingly drinking the poison to torment our hearts. May we forgive those who offended us and how we suffered as a result of that behavior. May we lose sight of the offense, and, if we are ever reminded of it, dismiss that memory as an old, resolved conflict. That way, we will not willingly pick up the poison of unforgiveness that harms our hearts because we are truly free. We chose not to hold on to this torment and release it as stardust. The strength to simply forget the incident and move on. Learning to love them from afar, not as what we desire, but in a way that The Father would.

Perhaps when we hold on to the torment of offense and do not forgive, we are allowing our hearts to carry burdens that never belonged to us in the first place.