Forgiveness

Today you can forgive all the parts of yourself that need forgiving. Forgiving is a gift. It is for giving. Its a way to give the gift of the present to someone who is stuck in the past or some part of them is stuck in the past. Forgiving is a way to help someone or a part of yourself come into the present so that that person or that part of yourself can enjoy the present again, can relax into the present moment without having parts still stuck in time and space elsewhere. Forgiving is a way to hold space for those parts of someone or parts of yourself in order to shepherd them into the aliveness of what is now. It is a way to bring them into the now. To let go of timelines and bless the past as a beautiful learning experience that happened in order for you to be where you are now. The forgive is to bless. To forgive is to honor the innocence. To forgive is not only to give love but to receive spaciousness where the tightness in one’s heart was holding on to something that needed to be let go. To be set free. To forgive is to set free. To forgive is to give the give of freedom to yourself and to those parts of yourself that are curled up inside without fresh air. It is not selfless to forgive or selfish but rather it is honoring the oneness in us all. The oneness that knows actions and words and feelings in your heart are also in another’s, perhaps in this lifetime, a past lifetime or a parallel lifetime. To forgive is to set free the judgment we have of ourselves and of others and to free the judge within us to go play and laugh and smile instead of sit tightly. No one says forgiving is easy or that it can be done instantly. It can be a process or simply an out breath of saying ‘Yes, I see you and I honor you and I understand you.’ Forgiving is a relief from believing we can know what will happen next or why things happen the way they do. Forgiving sets everyone free. So be it.