Question :::… How have you demonstrated forgiveness, lately?
“He who
is devoid of
the power to for-
give, is devoid
of the power
to love.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1928- 1968) Afro- American civil rights leader
Featured Comment by Margot B. ::: “If I cannot forgive, I cannot love. Interesting. The inability to forgive is strongest with family members who I think have “done me wrong.” I feel they were closest to me – I loved them – and yet they betrayed me. They were simply being who they are. I have learned to pray for them; I have learned to love them just as they are – and I hope they have learned to forgive me, too. Nobody’s hands are clean. The best we can do is wash them in the sweet water of forgiveness. ”
Apologize – Timbaland (3:24)
Brief Martin Luther King Jr. Bio (4:27)
Solefigio Hz Harmonics – Do Re Mi Meditation(4:53)
THEN WE MAINTAIN THIS LOVABILITY THRU FORGIVENESS –
“How better could
we learn that we our-
selves are eternally and
irrevocably lovable than
by recognizing that same
quality in everyone around
us?” “This is what for-
giveness is all about.”
(Al Anon, pp. 85-86)
“He who
is devoid of
the power to for-
give, is devoid
of the power
to love.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1928- 1968) Afro- American civil rights leader
Forgiveness
by George William Russell
My heart was heavy, for its trust had been
Abused, its kindness answered with foul wrong;
So, turning gloomily from my fellow-men,
One summer Sabbath day I strolled among
The green mounds of the village burial-place;
Where, pondering how all human love and hate
Find one sad level; and how, soon or late,
Wronged and wrongdoer, each with meekened face,
And cold hands folded over a still heart,
Pass the green threshold of our common grave,
Whither all footsteps tend, whence none depart,
Awed for myself, and pitying my race,
Our common sorrow, like a mighty wave,
Swept all my pride away, and trembling I forgave!
I think its natural to feel unable to forgive family. These relationships help form the core of who we are. In a sense, part of what I resent are the failings I see in myself that I don’t want to admit. Family just happens to be ones where these failings show up time after time. Its a lack of humility on my part that I find hard to address.
If I cannot forgive, I cannot love. Interesting. The inability to forgive is strongest with family members who I think have “done me wrong.” I feel they were closest to me – I loved them – and yet they betrayed me. They were simply being who they are. I have learned to pray for them; I have learned to love them just as they are – and I hope they have learned to forgive me, too. Nobody’s hands are clean. The best we can do is wash them in the sweet water of forgiveness.