Forgiveness is a gift given to us by God to heal the hurts
of the past, and to give us the hope of a better past. Forgiveness is a
gift we give ourselves and the world. It keeps our Spirit open, flowing
and growing into greater awareness and experience of God’s goodness and
abundance.
When our Spirit is open everyone benefits.
The act of
forgiveness is said to be one of the most difficult things life asks of
us.
Yet it is one of the most necessary things we can do.
When we don’t use our gift of forgiveness, it hurts us
on every level of our being: body, mind, and Spirit.
Our creative power
of thinking is used to relive past events so often making them worse than they
were.
Our emotion are frozen in unprocessed anger and resentment as we
try to suppress the pain of the past.
This can eventually cause disease in
our physical body.
Our Spiritual arteries are clogged with the
accumulation of unprocessed emotions. Our Spirit is constricted and our heart
is closed so we don’t get hurt again. When we go through years of
carrying baggage from the past, we can often become bitter and hardened against
life.
Probably the best way to understand our gift of forgiveness is
to change FORGIVE to GIVE FOR.
When we forgive, we give up that something that
blocks our Spirit for something that opens our Spirit.
When we forgive, we give up Resentment for Good Will;
Revenge for Kindness; Blame for Understanding; Separation for Oneness; A Closed
Heart for an Open Heart; Criticism for Support; Doubt and Fear for Faith and Courage;
Anger for Love; Self condemnation for Self esteem.
-- Rev. Nancy Ennis for Unity of Charlotte
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