Forgiveness: Balm to the Soul
Good Morning Everyone!
A news item caught my attention yesterday as Livestation opened itself up on my computer. When the cyber faeries insist, I'm thinking I should pay attention. The story was about accused Nazi, John Demjanjuk, who was being carried from his home in Bath, Ohio for deportation.
Demjanjuk was obviously old and ill. At 89 he was a pathetic site, indeed. I wondered about the process, because it seems so vivid and cruel.
Years ago a friend and I were at a hospital where her father lay dying. He had been a very hard and cruel man to his family, according to her and her sisters. Now he was the same pathetic sight that Demjanjuk posed yesterday. She remarked to me in the hospital cafeteria, "You know, I think that sometimes you hate something so much that you become that thing you hate." That was probably 35 years ago, and yet I remember it as vividly today as if I had heard it yesterday. It rang of Truth.
There ought to be a statute of limitations on hate. Of course this is our personal internal, spiritual work. Each of us, individually.
It's not that these things happened so very long ago, it is the fact that hate, kept alive, only eats up the hater. This is what ought to be taught in every church, every synagog, every temple, and yes, even in schools.
Horrible deed set up a dramatic field of contrast in order that we might choose what we do want in the face of what we don't want. When we see cruelty, such as I saw yesterday as they were carrying Demjanjuk out of his home, I immediately wished for kindness, compassion, and most of all enlightenment for all.
Some will argue that this is about justice. What about those 29,000 people that he is accused of being an accomplice to their genocide? Who will speak for them? I say that they are all in Well Being, in Oneness with Source, and know nothing of hatred and revenge. They know they are eternal beings and that there is only Love. It is only here on planet Earth, as we grapple with evolving our consciousness that we debate these issues.
The greatest argument that I can put forth for forgiveness harkens back to what my friend observed about the journey of her feelings for her father. She became him, that which she hated most.
Without forgiveness, hate eats us up in our biology, in our relationships, and in the quality of the life journey that we are keeping ourselves from enjoying. It ruins our lives, not theirs. Why should we forgive and forget? Because we deserve it; even if they don't.
If we take just one individual, such as my friend, and now multiply that by the millions upon millions that "hate" for a "justified" cause, we now see why we are at war somewhere all the time. Hatred is then passed on to our beautiful children, who come in as pure Love. It is tantamount to poisoning our own Well. We think that we have to teach them about what horror was done to "us" all those years ago, so they will carry on our "fight". But where is the Love in that? Where is the Goodness in this?
Forgiveness is the hardest thing a human can do. I know. But when we undertake that Soul work and move through it and get beyond it, there is a vista of infinite possibilities that cannot be seen through the cloud of hatred. There is so much more on the other side.
We are being called to become spiritual adults; to grow up. This is the personal work that has to be done one by one in order to see a new Earth. It isn't about "them" or "those people"; it is all about the individual: you and me.
So the next time you hear yourself ranting about "them" or "him" or "her" and the outrageous thing they did, stop and listen to what you're saying and feel the vile that is coursing through your body. This is what your hardened heart is doing to You.
That, dear reader, is the first step in the journey of forgiveness; a return to Love in your own consciousness.
Take the journey. It's Good for You.
Thanks for reading!
Kath
A news item caught my attention yesterday as Livestation opened itself up on my computer. When the cyber faeries insist, I'm thinking I should pay attention. The story was about accused Nazi, John Demjanjuk, who was being carried from his home in Bath, Ohio for deportation.
Demjanjuk was obviously old and ill. At 89 he was a pathetic site, indeed. I wondered about the process, because it seems so vivid and cruel.
Years ago a friend and I were at a hospital where her father lay dying. He had been a very hard and cruel man to his family, according to her and her sisters. Now he was the same pathetic sight that Demjanjuk posed yesterday. She remarked to me in the hospital cafeteria, "You know, I think that sometimes you hate something so much that you become that thing you hate." That was probably 35 years ago, and yet I remember it as vividly today as if I had heard it yesterday. It rang of Truth.
There ought to be a statute of limitations on hate. Of course this is our personal internal, spiritual work. Each of us, individually.
It's not that these things happened so very long ago, it is the fact that hate, kept alive, only eats up the hater. This is what ought to be taught in every church, every synagog, every temple, and yes, even in schools.
Horrible deed set up a dramatic field of contrast in order that we might choose what we do want in the face of what we don't want. When we see cruelty, such as I saw yesterday as they were carrying Demjanjuk out of his home, I immediately wished for kindness, compassion, and most of all enlightenment for all.
Some will argue that this is about justice. What about those 29,000 people that he is accused of being an accomplice to their genocide? Who will speak for them? I say that they are all in Well Being, in Oneness with Source, and know nothing of hatred and revenge. They know they are eternal beings and that there is only Love. It is only here on planet Earth, as we grapple with evolving our consciousness that we debate these issues.
The greatest argument that I can put forth for forgiveness harkens back to what my friend observed about the journey of her feelings for her father. She became him, that which she hated most.
Without forgiveness, hate eats us up in our biology, in our relationships, and in the quality of the life journey that we are keeping ourselves from enjoying. It ruins our lives, not theirs. Why should we forgive and forget? Because we deserve it; even if they don't.
If we take just one individual, such as my friend, and now multiply that by the millions upon millions that "hate" for a "justified" cause, we now see why we are at war somewhere all the time. Hatred is then passed on to our beautiful children, who come in as pure Love. It is tantamount to poisoning our own Well. We think that we have to teach them about what horror was done to "us" all those years ago, so they will carry on our "fight". But where is the Love in that? Where is the Goodness in this?
Forgiveness is the hardest thing a human can do. I know. But when we undertake that Soul work and move through it and get beyond it, there is a vista of infinite possibilities that cannot be seen through the cloud of hatred. There is so much more on the other side.
We are being called to become spiritual adults; to grow up. This is the personal work that has to be done one by one in order to see a new Earth. It isn't about "them" or "those people"; it is all about the individual: you and me.
So the next time you hear yourself ranting about "them" or "him" or "her" and the outrageous thing they did, stop and listen to what you're saying and feel the vile that is coursing through your body. This is what your hardened heart is doing to You.
That, dear reader, is the first step in the journey of forgiveness; a return to Love in your own consciousness.
Take the journey. It's Good for You.
Thanks for reading!
Kath
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