By Kemi Ajiboye
It is time to tell a ‘New Story of You. It is time to create a ‘New Magazine of You’ telling the story of how you acquired your ‘INNER PEACE through the SPIRIT OF FORGIVENESS.
It time to stop making yourself sick spiritually and physically…
To withhold forgiveness keeps alive emotions of hurt, anger and blame which discolour your perception of life. Toxic and destructive emotions have the potential to activate certain diseases. Stop making yourself sick.
Bitterness and pride are Spiritual Cancer: they eat up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
Sometimes one knowingly or without intending to, wounds self and might struggle with dealing with the consequences. The question is: how can one forgive others when one is not capable of or cannot forgive self?
You have to love and forgive yourself, you cannot forgive yourself or others without first “Unconditionally Loving yourself”.
This is not “Love” born out of sentimentality but of the kind of “Love” emanating from the “Cross of Christ Jesus; the one courageously even though ‘bleeding”, saying,….. I love. I forgive. I let it go, It is finished…!
“Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.” There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven.”
When we are deeply hurt by others, initially we might find it difficult to forgive our offender(s) but if we want to live happily and at ease without having to carrying the heavy burden of bitterness, we have to learn to forgive. It shouldn’t matter if the person(s) is unable to ask for forgiveness or even acknowledge that they have done wrong and ask for forgiveness.
We are as sinful as our offenders when their wickedness matches our inability to forgive.
It is time to stop being a prisoner of your past; It is time to become the architect of your future which you can consciously and joyfully create.
I pray the Lord, the Divine Source help us to never again retain un-forgiveness of self or others with the realisation that “un-forgiveness of error(s) towards self is itself a sin (error); May the balm of His love heal our heart.
“I choose to be joyful as I’m conscious of the fact that I cannot have Heaven and Hell together.”
To end the misery that you have been afflicted with or that is afflicting you, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for your inner state. We may not always be able to avoid difficult situations caused by the wrongs done to us but, we can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how we choose to respond to the situations.
Furthermore, forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what has happened seriously and not minimising it, drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens to poison our entire existence.
“Forgiveness is the only reaction which does not merely re-act but acts anew and unexpectedly, unconditioned by the act which provoked it and therefore freeing from its consequences both the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.”
It’s always a beautiful day.
