Forgiveness

Forgiveness is such a strong emotion. It leads us down so many paths. It leads me away from good and it leads me to good. It can be granted and it can be withheld. It can be ignored and it can be acknowledged. It is powerful and it is nothing.


I always wonder how many times I let forgiveness rule my life. I think of the times that I spend in my life not fully experiencing it because I was holding on to some hurt in my life that should be released through forgiveness. I think of the times that I’ve burdened someone by not accepting forgiveness or mostly by not even thinking that I needed to be forgiven for some action that hurt another.

Oh how many times I’ve been so caught up in myself that I don’t even see the other person’s need. How does that happen? There is always another perspective to the reality I am living. There is always someone else’s reality. The reality always consists of how the situation affected the other and how I don’t see that reality because I am clouded by the reality I am experiencing.

Am I doing it right now? Am I writing about the reality of my thoughts without acknowledging the thoughts of those reading this blog? Hopefully not, but I know in my intellect that I can only acknowledge that the thoughts of others exist, but know that I can’t truly consider the thoughts as I can’t ever really know them in total because I can’t experience them in the truest form. The thoughts can only be fully experienced by the one thinking the thoughts.

How does that relate to forgiveness? Forgiveness is taken in the perspective of the others participating in the forgiveness. My thoughts play a role in that forgiveness. Forgiveness can rule one’s life for good or bad. Forgiveness takes action on my part in acknowledging I need to give it and I need to accept it. Forgiveness if withheld or blocked leads me away from good and forgiveness if accepted and given leads me toward good.

Talk to you again soon,


Eileen