Forgiveness. A noun, a gift, a virtue and a choice.
We all want to be forgiven yet few have the ability to forgive. We harbor anger, resentments, guilts and shame towards others if they have offended or hurt us. The rage within fuels us to maintain what we think as control. Yet all too often this is not the case. It is a false sense of control.
The issue is more about our ability to forgive ourselves. if we do not hod the capacity to do that by taking self accountability and responsibility for our actions or inactions then we do have the ability to forgive others. When we lack the humility to surrender and ask for the space to be forgiven by the divine, then we lack the ability to forgive ourselves.
It is in this lack, this void that we then find ourselves unable to forgive others. It takes immense strength and fortitude in one’s faith to be able to forgive another, no matter how much they have wronged us. We can play mental games and pretend that there is nothing to forgive as everything is in divine order, but most never reach that stage from their hearts as we remain in our minds. To be able to see the divine order one must be able to reach that transcendent stage in our hearts. This comes from surrender to the infinite light.
Erica Kirk is one such recent example where people say that she was wrong to forgive the man who murdered her husband Charlie Kirk. The influencers are accusing her of forgiving him due to his skin color and surmise that she would not have if it was different. Yet they also fail to understand the penance of forgiveness, nor do they fathom the depth of what someone has to go through in order to forgive. The act of forgiveness is an act of courage, grace and faith.
Each of us are asked to reflect in this moment of our own ability and inability to forgive another. This comes from a much deeper space of the heart. To go through the darkness and find that glimmer of light, the speck of hope. This takes fortitude and resolution. It takes us to the limits of our skill to remain still when the world around us has collapsed and to rise through those ashes with this virtue. It is a choice. To let go of the hate and the anger and choose to heal. Those that critique this gift have yet to receive faith into their hearts.
To conquer oneself is the greatest victory than to conquer those in a battle. The war has always been and always will be with ourselves. The problem is we choose to spill this fight against others and so we create crime, harm and the endless of strife.
Forgiveness. The art of divine blessing that is offered to all creatures, yet humanity with their “choice”, shuns the greatest gift from the heavens and refuses to offer it to themselves or each other. It is wise to find one’s biggest adversary, whether in the home, the workplace or in the world, and tap into that abundance of forgiveness from which all life is offered at its end.
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I love you
