Forgiveness
Monday, May 10th, 2010
Need a healing? Start with forgiveness.
We all carry the need to forgive somebody around with us through life. If you can’t think of anyone you need to forgive, try forgiving yourself. Once you clean up that dark spot in your life, you’ll see healing demonstrated by the endeavor – often in physical terms.
But what really is forgiveness? I think forgiveness comes when we truly clean up the mess. We forgive and are forgiven when we no longer have anything to forgive. It’s not, as some think, an act that somehow prefaces the solution of the original crime. It only comes when the crime is solved and rectified.
The most prescient statement I’ve ever heard on the subject of forgiveness is found in the Lord’s Prayer. Forgive us our debts (our trespasses) as we forgive our debtors (those who trespass against us).
