If you don’t practice forgiveness, you might be the one who is paying the highest price. By embracing forgiveness, you can also embrace peace, hope, gratitude, and joy. Forgiveness can lead you down the path of physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

Let’s be clear about one thing, forgiveness doesn’t mean that you deny the other person’s responsibility for hurting you, and it doesn’t minimize or justify the wrong. You can forgive the person without excusing the act. Forgiveness brings a kind of peace that helps you get on with your life.

When you choose to let go of resentment, it does not mean that what happened vanishes. But what does happen is it releases its hold on you. In other words, it frees you. It frees you to focus on the positive areas of your life.

Forgiveness is our ability to remove negative thoughts and neutralize them so our energy can be spent on doing what we came here to do. We cannot move forward in our future if past issues muddy our thinking. If we think of our life as a room, the more past issues or negative thoughts, the more stuff and clutter we have in there clogs up our thinking, thereby also clogging up our ability to manifest. When we forgive, it’s as if we took a broom, and swept away the old clutter that is blocking us from creating the life we really want.

Vast beauty and opportunity live beneath those old emotional scars. If we want to move beyond the scars and into a healing process, we must decide to let go of any anger, bitterness, blame, resentment, or hostility toward others or ourselves, and commit to freeing ourselves from the emotional and spiritual bondage that holding on to those old hurts creates. Bitterness and joy; or blame/resentment and love cannot co-exist.

The decision to be free to experience and enjoy love, joy, peace, or freedom demands a release of negative memories/emotions and their hold on you. You will remain stuck in the past and not be able to move forward as long as you stay stuck in that past experience.

To be able to live in the ‘now’ it’s important that you leave the past behind. To accomplish this is to make a decision to do so. You always have a choice in every moment.

Forgiveness is a commitment to a process of change. You can actively choose to forgive the person who’s offended you, when you’re ready – but don’t wait too long. Move away from your role as victim and release the control and power the offending person and situation have had in your life.

When it comes to forgiveness, I love Michael Bernard Beckwith’s quote:

“Accept what is, either you control the situation, or it controls you. Harvest the good. Forgive the rest.”

Put down that cup of poison, and replace it with a cup of tea."

I believe in you,

Douglas Vandergraph

 

 

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