Forgiveness the ultimate sacrifice.

Pain,pain,betrayal,abuse,rejection,loss,you name all the evils we all go through them all.But we give ourselves the best gift ever,when we choose and pray to God to help us to forgive.Thanx to you all on the response to my posts and articles on forgivnees.Forgiveness is harder to achieve,but its achieveable. It may be harder because there is still the ego that was pained, the difficulty of accepting one's weakness, the feeling of wanting to seek revenge or even the need to continue to feel miserable. We keep praying that God will help us forgive the person that caused us pain yet it is never possible when there is no forgiveness from within. Self forgiving is the starting point. You might say, what is there to forgive when they were the ones who wronged us? Yes, it may be true. Yet, we cannot give to others what we do not have within ourselves. We cannot forgive others if we do not forgive ourselves.

When forgiving others, it doesn't mean you approved of the act. It doesn't mean you want to continue on with what was left behind. Forgiving others means letting go of the power that act has in our lives. We are untangling ourselves from being held hostage from the pain and misery the other person has caused us. The act of forgiving is freeing ourselves from our own grip, our own belief that we have to live miserably because of whatever that has happened. In truth, we have the choice every minute of our life to live joyously no matter what. Whether the other party benefits from our forgiveness, it really doesn't matter. What matters most is we find freedom in forgiving.
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