FORGIVENESS

Someone once said, “Unforgiveness is like you are drinking poison and expecting the other person to die”.
I reflect on this idea at times. That we say “I forgive you” as if we are actually doing something for the other person.

I acknowledge that nothing is personal.

Nothing anyone ever does to you is personal. Whether it is beautiful and someone is praising you or whether it is ugly and someone is shaming you.

None of it is about you.

It is really about them because people only can give what they have. If you have love, you give love.

If you have anger, you give anger.

You only can give whatever you have.

In the same way, recognizing and realizing that there is no one to forgive that your forgiveness is actually for yourself, to create freedom for yourself.

In this moment, we should to consider when it comes to forgiveness, can you set yourself free?
Can you not be bound by the idea that people are doing things to you that you are being attacked?

ANDREW MCFARLENE