I will come back and read in quiet this text. It sure is promising already. Meanwhile I am hopefully allowed to copy this text dividing styling design of yours. :) Until later! Love, E.
You opened up one layer after the other. I like how you thought about the "buts" as an instant reply to a passage and then answered them.
Also it's good that you showed the different theological approaches to forgiveness. It opens even more up to the whole context of forgiveness.
Sticking to the feelings one event caused which lasted only some seconds or minutes certainly keeps the suffering alive. The only chance is to re-ingegrate what ones hates about oneself. It's the weakness we all accuse ourselves of that gives nutrition to not letting go what wants to be forgiven. I agree very much to the notion that it's not the other one I have to forgive, but myself. As the "self" actually is not so solid and changes ever so often it could be seen as something fleeting.
Really difficult for all of us. It must be practiced continually in order to be "trained" in forgiving.
One should start with the easy things which do only bother us little to dare to come eventually to the difficult stuff. Like when a bus-driver was impolite to us. Thinking of incidents where we ourselves were in a hurry and being rude and thankful for the fact that people actually let us act and not bothered with a rude response. ... Actually, the difficult stuff will turn out to be not so difficult any more when we increase the little steps as a light habit throughout ordinary life.
"I was simply healing the part of me that created them," he said.
That sounds.
In general people suffer too much and do forget to attain a playful attitude to life itself. It's always a time for playing and also another one for praying. We should not waste so much time on praying for the world to heal when the world we live in right now does offer us so many opportunities to see what we already got.
;-)
I am already excited to hear your wisdom, @erh.germany
Much love
I was going to make a video for this post as well ;) LOL And this was the major theme of it - the outgoing message - that we need only 'open our eyes' to the love and beauty all around us. I think most people desire happiness.