We all know someone who never misses an opportunity to retell
their story of some past injustice, real or imagined. If they are close
to us (family), we have heard the story so many times that we know it by
heart,
resisting the temptation (hopefully) to finish it for them. The tale
explains why they haven’t or can’t and never will demonstrate over or
put behind them some incident in their lives, always finishing the tale with a note of triumph and justification in their
voice. Unfortunately many choose to hold on to past
injustices and hurts to the point of shutting themselves off from the
sunlight of the Spirit. If we are to be free we
must set free all
who have harmed us, leaving their final disposition to their
demonstration before God, getting us out of the retribution business. To
be clear: there are those who have committed grievous acts beyond the
pale, they will reap as they have sown, but harboring hurt and hate in
our heart stunts our growth and limits our demonstrations, forgiving
does not mean forgetting. Our job, since embarking on Living on the
Spiritual Basis, is to forgive so that we and the whole Human race
improves, but it is does not mean we have to place ourselves in a
position to be harmed again.
So we forgive all who have harmed us, setting them and
ourselves free, but we don’t have to go to lunch with them. If for some
reason they do appear in our life or they are someone whom because of
family or some other reason we will have to face, ask in prayer to be
shown the way of patience, kindness, tolerance and love toward this
individual and to be kept safe and free of new resentments in their presence. By saluting the
Presence of God within them and releasing them you will be amazed by the results. To state
the Great Teaching once again:
simple but not easy, a price has to be paid and that price is the surrendering of self.
© Vincent Lee Jones Living In Spirit All Rights Reserved
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Wayne Dyer, ACIM, Serenity, Enlightenment, Zen, Emmet Fox, How To Be Happy,
Golden Key, Addicts Today, Chopra, Jesus, Healing Path Recovery, Einstein,
Marianne Williamson, Sayeh Beheshti, AKUA
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