FORGIVENESS inspired by Jack Addington

"FORGIVENESS" inspired by Jack Addington

 

         We don’t have to let old animosities stand between us and our good.  How can we let go?  By understanding.  

No matter how hateful the other person may have been, we must start with understanding.  Know that each person does 

what they do because they believe it is the right thing to do at the moment, usually because it gets them what they want.  

It may not be what you think is right; it may not be what society thinks is right; but at that moment, to them, it seems 

the best thing to do to get what they want.

         When you hold a resentment against anyone, you are bound to that person by a cosmic link, a real, though 

mental chain.  You are tied by a cosmic tie to the thing that you perceive has hurt you or the thing you hate.  You must 

cut all such ties, by a clear and spiritual act of forgiveness, to ever be completely free to move forward to your greatest good.   

Holding resentment is like eating poison and expecting the other person to die.  It only harms you.  Usually the other person 

is not even feeling guilty or remorseful.

         Is there someone in your life who you find hard to forgive?  Try blessing them.  Bless the spirit of Truth within them; 

pray for them.  Say to yourself “The divinity in me salutes the divinity in you.  I forgive you; I bless you; I free you; 

I understand you and you understand me.  I release you to your highest good.”

 

SELF-FORGIVENESS

 

         I have made many mistakes in the past.  

To continue to have remorse and guilt over these mistakes 

Is to continue to separate myself from God. 

This is the greatest mistake of all.

        I now forgive myself for every past mistake.  

All condemnation is released.  

I give up every destructive feeling about the past, every feeling of separateness.  

I let go of all resentment, every hate and fear.  

God knows nothing about sin for He did not create it.  

The Divinity within me has never been contaminated.  

In truth, I have never been separated from God for a single instant.

         Divine Love as the center of my being frees me 

From any sense of condemnation of myself and others.  

As I forgive.  I AM freely forgiven. 

I AM made free and am a new creation.  

I let go of the past.  

I have no guilt regarding the past and no apprehension for the future.  

I AM free. 

And so it is.