Posts Tagged ‘forgiveness’
Good Intentions Are Not Enough
Posted on: May 14, 2013
It’s not enough to act with good intentions. We must also act with the intelligence and good judgement God gave us and that we have spent our lifetimes honing. Good intentions alone can be the cobblestones from which the road to Hell is built, but good intentions formed through self-doubt and second-guessing guided by wisdom aquired from experience are all we will ever be expected to live up to. We each see the world through the lenses crafted by our experiences. We cannot be expected to know how others see the world. All God asks of us is that we try to be tolerant and understand those who hurt us by trying to help us. Likewise, we should ask God to help us help others in ways that will most benefit them as opposed to helping others as we would want to be helped.
So many people are damaged by friends and family who care for and about them. But instead of asking and listening to what these people honestly need, they force solutions and act in ways that are self-centered — based on what they would want if it were their problem. It happens all the time and we each must understand that these helpers mean well. We must forgive them for hurting us and learn how to set boundaries in our relationships that protect us from the unintended consequences of others’ actions.
Unintended consequences that should have been forseeable are the ingredients for the recipe for damnation, but those that we can’t forsee are a part of that great design — out of our hands — off our shoulders — and for which we will not be held responsible. If God forgives us for hurting others unintentionally, we should forgive ourselves.
Healing Your Soul
Posted on: March 8, 2013
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once stated, “I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and that its activity continues through eternity.”
Teilhard de Chardin once stated, “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
There have been longings of my soul that I have tried and failed to meet in material ways. I now realize that these needs can only be met with spiritual experiences.
But though the soul may be immortal, it can be hurt or damaged and at times it may require time and effort to help it heal.
Rajiv Parti, MD (aka Dr. Raj) wrote an article titled “A Simple Mantra for Healing Your Dark Night of the Soul” that gives us a series of steps to take when we “can’t see the sun shining” to help us “find the light within.”
- FORGIVE: This is a change within our minds. Start to live in the present — in the ‘Now’ and not be stuck in what our circumstances were in the past or what we want them to be in future.
- LOVE: This is a change within our hearts. We must strive to love ourselves, our lives, and our circumstances. One can only love others when one becomes ‘love’ itself. Have gratitude and love re-kindled for the Spirit, the people, the world, the environment.
- HEAL: This is a change of our spirit, within our souls. To really heal, a ‘shift’ has to happen at a deep level of our consciousness. Effectively, the consciousness has to not just heal but evolve too.
Dr. Raj and I have something in common. He writes:
I am thankful to the Spirit for the circumstances I had to go through. It has brought love, compassion, ‘Seva’ (service with gratitude), sharing, and creativity as my guiding principles – where as before I lived for cancerous materialism, expensive toys, the satisfaction of myself above all others: it really was all about me: my status.
Dr. Raj’s advice is to not just say the mantra, “Forgive, Love, Heal,” but to practice it; to BE the change it beckons from us.
PS: Happy Birthday, Sis.
P A T I E N C E
Posted on: November 23, 2012
Pray for it…
Anger dissipates…
Tested by God…
Incredible rewards and blessings…
Everyone is deserving
Never lose sight of its importance…
Character-Building…
Endure to the end!
~BB
Forgiveness by Matthew West
Posted on: November 2, 2012
“Forgiveness”
And the last thing on your mind today
It always goes to those that don’t deserveIt’s the opposite of how you feel
When the pain they caused is just too real
It takes everything you have just to say the word…Forgiveness
Forgiveness
It flies in the face of all your pride
It moves away the mad inside
It’s always anger’s own worst enemy
Even when the jury and the judge
Say you gotta right to hold a grudge
It’s the whisper in your ear saying ‘Set It Free’
Forgiveness, Forgiveness
Forgiveness, Forgiveness
Show me how to love the unlovable
Show me how to reach the unreachable
Help me now to do the impossible
Forgiveness, Forgiveness
Help me now to do the impossible
Forgiveness
It’ll clear the bitterness away
It can even set a prisoner free
There is no end to what it’s power can do
So, let it go and be amazed
By what you see through eyes of grace
The prisoner that it really frees is you
Forgiveness, Forgiveness
Forgiveness, Forgiveness
Show me how to love the unlovable
Show me how to reach the unreachable
Help me now to do the impossible
Forgiveness
I want to finally set it free
So show me how to see what Your mercy sees
Help me now to give what You gave to me
Forgiveness, Forgiveness
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