Today’s Just Be thought
This one is not in itself a way to maintain your peaceful presence in the moment but a platform that is needed to make the peace within happen.
It’s about forgiveness.
I’ve struggled with forgiveness in the past with many people. I thought forgiveness meant accepting and embracing the other person’s misdeeds or even acting as it never happened.
No, it’s not that at all. And it’s much much deeper than that.
Here are things I’ve learned about this, and a quote that helps me to keep my eye on the right thing here.
Forgiveness is acknowledgement that I have been done wrong, but not allowing that wrong to continue to harm me.
Forgiveness has nothing to do with how the other person thinks of me before or after I admit forgiveness.
Forgiveness means I can admit it to only myself and no one else and it still is effective.
Forgiveness is like taking off a heavy, wet, dirty coat and leaving it at the door.
“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
Paul Boose