FORGIVENESS

Out and about today my mind wanders about many things. I even now realize why I used to love to read love stories and watch western movies. Know why? Because they always ended up living happy ever after.

Conversely, real life is not that simple, not at all.  Many of us wonder when will our breakthrough come, we need a change and desire a change and sometimes feels It’s GOT to change!

Speaking with a young woman about some challenging experience I had but now I can look back and see that it worked together for my good.  What could have been a bitter pill, even years after, no longer had that negative influence and I could speak about it with peace and no regret.

She stated that she could see nothing of peace about the matter as she did not like the person involved because he never asked her for forgiveness, therefore, she had nothing good to say about it.  I got quiet, and she wanted to know if I could receive her truth. I could, but I was puzzled about the fact that she was holding to something that I had long let go of, and so had the other person, as a matter of fact they were deceased, and she was still carrying this baggage.  Why do we choose to hold to ashes? Let’s trade our ashes for the oil of gladness.  By forgiving others we release ourselves from that other person.  Until we do, we carry that other person with us. Forgiveness is for us, it frees us, not the other person.  They don’t deserve your forgiveness?  Do you deserve the peace that forgiveness brings?  THINK ABOUT IT!

One Last Thing:  GUARD YOUR HEART – PROTECT YOUR HEART – WHAT GOES IN, WILL COME OUT IN SOME FORM.