Forgiveness Is Not My Weakness: The Key To Forgiveness "Forgiving Others"

Forgiving Others

The question has always been ask why do you want to forgive someone who has hurt you? The answer should always be because I’ve been forgiven. There was a businessman who had owed several millions of dollars to creditors and he could not pay his debt. He decided to file bankruptcy

to receive mercy from the courts in order to settle his debts. This businessman plead his case to the judge and his creditors on why he should receive forgiveness of his debt. After the judge and creditors heard this businessman plea they decided to discharge his debt. But soon after receiving mercy from the courts the businessman began to seek after those that owed him and filed lawsuits against his debtors. His debtors ask for grace with these payments and extension to pay but to no avail did the businessman extend mercy. The businessman easily ignored the forgiveness that was given to him in his time of need and then he refused to give what had been given unto him, which was forgiveness.

I do believe that forgiveness is a process and takes time for one to genuinely give and receive. I’d

like to dismiss the notion that forgiveness is a quick-fix. Because you say that you forgive a person

and your actions shows that you really haven’t let it go, that isn’t true forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the epitome of evolving. When you are able to pardon someone for the things that

they have done to you, you have developed degrees of maturity. The hardest challenge for us to

do is forgive and move on in life. When you’re faced a series with assaults mentally, emotionally,

and physically by others it can be difficult to excuse them of their offense, but not impossible. But

when you become ready to set them free and let it go, you’ve mastered the science of forgiveness.

The science of forgiveness is the key to healthy mental living. When you set the person, event,

and occurrences free from your memory it stops the berating of your thinking. The more you think

about it the more you are in captivity to its renderings. And as long as it can keep you captive you

become a hostage to what has happened in your past. Then you must let it go. To let it go you must

forgive yourself. It wasn’t your fault nor are you to blame. When you forgive yourself you are telling your past that it’s over. Holding on the hurt, guilt, or pain becomes self-inflicting which hinders your progression. Just as nature forgives itself by the changing of the seasons so should you by changing your thinking.

Forgiveness is repetitive. You will find yourself either giving or receiving grace over and over

again.

Be blessed,

Baron Hopgood