Unity Daily Word
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carocrowForgive
As I forgive, I move on in life, creating new memories of happiness and peace.
One of the most difficult things I may ever be asked to do is to forgive someone who I feel has treated me unfairly or unkindly. Yet I also know that if I continue to think about the apparent injustice, the anguish I feel will continue, and even increase, in intensity.
Releasing all resentment and anger over the past, I am able to forgive. Through forgiveness, I free myself of reliving the past through painful memories. Thank God, I then can move on in my life and create new memories of happiness and peace.
Each act of forgiveness inspires a healing response within me that relieves me of stress. Forgiveness sets me free to live more fully in each moment, to experience the joy of life that God intended for me.
"Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. What I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ."
--2 Corinthians 2:10
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And so it keeps coming back to Forgiveness. Forgiveness is for giving me freedom. Freedom from attachments I might have to my pet resentments, my feelings that I must be loved in order to be worthy. My perfectionism, my lack of tolerance for imperfections in others. My need for closure and apology, when those things are not necessary to the process of Forgiveness on a personal level, and might never come. These needs are blocks to my Freedom, and I must let them go. If they come, then, they will be less vital to me, and I will have less a tendency to focus on them or feel triumph over them.
Life is not a war. Nobody wins, nobody loses. It comes out the same for everyone, birth, life and death, some longer, some shorter, but all made from the same pattern.
Memories and experiences are universal; what in my perception is dramatic and life threatening might be very low on someone else's scale, and vice versa. We judge one anothers' dramas based on our own filters, and that is wrong-headed and narrow minded. Each person has their own tasks to perform, their own life to fit and wear, and at base essence it is none of our business to be their tailors, though we can provide a space and share our tools. We can be open, in other words. Being open is necessary to keep receiving, to keep experiencing.
Filtering, discarding and releasing the things that are not wholesome or life improving for us on a personal level is the style of Freedom through Forgiveness. It is flexible and yet firm, transparent yet only selectively penetrable.
As I forgive, I move on in life, creating new memories of happiness and peace.
One of the most difficult things I may ever be asked to do is to forgive someone who I feel has treated me unfairly or unkindly. Yet I also know that if I continue to think about the apparent injustice, the anguish I feel will continue, and even increase, in intensity.
Releasing all resentment and anger over the past, I am able to forgive. Through forgiveness, I free myself of reliving the past through painful memories. Thank God, I then can move on in my life and create new memories of happiness and peace.
Each act of forgiveness inspires a healing response within me that relieves me of stress. Forgiveness sets me free to live more fully in each moment, to experience the joy of life that God intended for me.
"Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. What I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ."
--2 Corinthians 2:10
~~~
And so it keeps coming back to Forgiveness. Forgiveness is for giving me freedom. Freedom from attachments I might have to my pet resentments, my feelings that I must be loved in order to be worthy. My perfectionism, my lack of tolerance for imperfections in others. My need for closure and apology, when those things are not necessary to the process of Forgiveness on a personal level, and might never come. These needs are blocks to my Freedom, and I must let them go. If they come, then, they will be less vital to me, and I will have less a tendency to focus on them or feel triumph over them.
Life is not a war. Nobody wins, nobody loses. It comes out the same for everyone, birth, life and death, some longer, some shorter, but all made from the same pattern.
Memories and experiences are universal; what in my perception is dramatic and life threatening might be very low on someone else's scale, and vice versa. We judge one anothers' dramas based on our own filters, and that is wrong-headed and narrow minded. Each person has their own tasks to perform, their own life to fit and wear, and at base essence it is none of our business to be their tailors, though we can provide a space and share our tools. We can be open, in other words. Being open is necessary to keep receiving, to keep experiencing.
Filtering, discarding and releasing the things that are not wholesome or life improving for us on a personal level is the style of Freedom through Forgiveness. It is flexible and yet firm, transparent yet only selectively penetrable.
