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THE NATURE OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

There are many who strive, today, to love without limits, that is to say, unconditionally, who find it possible to do with those who do not burden them with distress, or cause them difficulties in any one of a number of ways, yet who, in the presence of someone else's rage, rejection, or indifference, find it impossible to respond with love.    This limitation of the human heart cannot be overcome through the use of will, except on a limited basis, for the will-to-love can be plentiful, but the emotions that get in the way of love can also be plentiful.  What is needed is a fuller immersion in, and experience of, the 'vibration' of Love, so that it becomes a living reality that is first offered to the self, after which it can be offered to others.  The vibration of limitless or unconditional love is not one that is self-created.  Rather, it partakes of the Divine and must be received in the way of an experience of God's love that softens the heart, melting the sharp edges that are often carried in relation to unhealed situations in life or in relation to people with whom one has had difficulty in the past.  One can speak of 'unconditional love' and understand that it lives within each human heart at its Divine core, but to arrive at the place where it can be felt as a feeling and conveyed to others as well, it must be awakened first, and this awakening is an awakening of the Christ-self within. To speak of the Christ-self within is not to identify such love with any particular religion, for it does not belong to any religion.  It belongs to the universe of souls and to the Heart from which all human hearts derive.  This greater Heart has included in the lesser, the capacity to reach toward the limitless in the way of love, compassion, mercy, and gratitude, and has provided an inner path to do so which is carved out by the many ways in which one can pray for, meditate on, and receive an experience of Divine love.  In this way, the human heart becomes connected with the Heart of God, the Heart of Hearts, and can then love others with what it has experienced within itself.  Often, the awakening to the unconditional love that God has for all souls that man seeks to find within occurs spontaneously when the soul is ready, simply because it is time, and the embodied self is ripe for such an experience. Sometimes, the synergy of being with a group of others who pray together and share in God's love can quicken the awakening of the Divine heart within each human heart.  And sometimes, being in the presence of an Illuminated One - a being who has awakened to the Divine Heart within sufficiently to transmit the vibration to others - is needed in order that the light within be ignited as if by a small match that then produces a flame that grows and grows. The longing for an experience of Divine love in order to feel it, to become it, and to share it with humanity, are the steps toward awakening of the Christ-self.  At the foundation of this longing is the spiritual gravitation of the human heart toward the Heart of God.  This gravitation is something that is indigenous to the human soul.  It is part of the spiritual unfoldment of the soul.  And so allowing it to grow and nurturing it, will ultimately produce the benefits of longing and of praying, expecially when accompanied by the purification of those aspects of thought and feeling that may additionally be standing in the way of greater love. In relation to such an awakening, it is important to understand two things: first, that spiritual awakening for each and every soul is much more possible today, due to the earth's infusion with greater light.  This infusion has already transformed the spiritual atmosphere in which humanity lives.  Across the board, it is making it more possible for souls to have experiences of spiritual deepening that either would not have been possible before, or would have taken much longer.  Second, one must realize that the words 'unconditional love' or 'limitless love' can be used without the speaker having full awareness of their meaning.  For until the experience of merging and melting of heart within Heart takes place, it is not possible to know what the words mean, although it is still possible for the spiritual gravitation to take place that enables the heart to keep reaching toward what it most deeply seeks. The Christ-self within is the capacity to embody God's heart within one's own and to share the love that comes from this joining.  All steps taken in pursuit of this joining will bear fruit, and all steps taken with indifference to the outcome of any action or path in terms of love, will increasingly separate one from the Source of love.  This is to say that in order to receive Love, one must desire it, one must have a place within where it can reside, and one must wish to share it, for such love cannot be held for the benefit of the self.  This would be incompatible with its essence. There are many guides, steps, paths, and practices which are all designed to open the heart to greater love.  What is important is to begin walking toward the Heart whose call is sounding ever more loudly, even now, as it attempts to heal an earth that is greatly in need of healing. May all who seek unconditional love seek to share it in the way of God - as the gentle rain that falleth on the good and the evil alike.  And may all such seeking bear fruit and be blessed.

LOVE AND TRUTH

Sacred relationships rely on two currents of healing found within all relationships. The first is the current of love, support, generosity, and sympathy that manifests as the quality of gentleness. The second is the current of truth, justice, and righteousness that manifests as the quality of firmness. All relationships and all interactions are composed of these two intermingled currents.

To love without truth means to not see others, and therefore to relate to them in a shallow way. It also means to not be seen oneself, and therefore to pay the price of reduced intimacy. When we love without being truthful, we relate to others from the surface of ourselves. As a result, we may have difficulty feeling loving or that we are being loved.

On the other hand, to have truth but not love, means to fall prey to judgment about the limitations of others. It is to create distance from others through the restriction of our gentleness and compassion, both of which are needed to develop intimacy and to help someone change and grow. In each of our relationships, love and truth, gentleness and firmness, must be tied to each other in such a way that each permeates the other. Only in this way can our life with others remain in balance.

Even though love comes from the heart, our culture also defines which actions will be perceived by us as loving, and which will not.

Sometimes, it tells us that being truthful is not loving. Sometimes, it confuses us about what love really is. This confusion takes many of us in the direction of limiting our truthfulness so that we will appear loving, even though we don't really feel authentic in what we are expressing. It causes us to be afraid of being firm with others because we will be seen as 'making waves'.

Within a sacred life, we are called to integrity before God. We are called to find ways of being honest with ourselves and with others in all forms of our expression. At the same time, we are called to become expressions of love. Because of this dual calling, we quickly come up against the cultural confusion we have lived with about what it is to be loving and what it is to be truthful. We need to find a way within ourselves to balance these two strands.

Sometimes being loving means to support someone in what they feel they need. This may include offers of sympathy, help, statements of affection, and affirmation of another's positive qualities. Sometimes being loving means to support someone in who they are inside - who they are as a soul - not in what they feel. This may include confronting unconscious behavior, setting limits, requiring accountability for words and actions, and saying "no" to what is being asked for.

To make the distinction between these two currents of love and to decide which is needed in a given situation is not always easy. It requires a clear mind and heart to do so and the courage to speak the truth. Gestures that are typically loving and supportive are easier for us to offer to others than gestures that show love as truthfulness. This is not difficult to understand. To hear the positive truth about oneself feels like support and love to most people and is most often felt as nourishing. To hear the truth about limitations or blind spots does not commonly feel like love to others, first, because their sense of self may be uncertain and in need of bolstering, but more importantly, because they are not committed enough to seeing life as a learning process in which each limitation is revealed in order to be overcome.

The offering of truth to others must be done in a way that joins truth and love. This is only possible when the mind is not clouded by need or fear and the heart is filled with a spirit of generosity which seeks to help another in as pure a way as possible. When this is the case, our inner knowing of another can be offered to them as a mirror to the self so that they can see themselves through our eyes.

Inner knowing is built into each of us, and continues to be present even when we feel it to be missing. Our sense of truth is our inheritance; it is a function of our soul. It resides within our hearts as intuition and within our bodies as sensitivity and can be reached for at times of need, even though the way to it may seem dark.

If we do not invalidate our sense of truth but rather seek it deliberately, we will find it in the deepest place of our heart. What gives us this inner knowing is not primarily any studying we have done about the human psyche, or any experiences we have had with groups of people. It is the innate goodness of our soul, our spiritual core, that tells us when something feels right to us and when it feels wrong. Intuition can be cultivated and enhanced over time, but it is always there. The more we rely on it, the more clear are the messages it sends to our conscious minds and the more we can trust these messages.

Our sense of truth tells us when what we are saying or doing serves the best interests of another, and when we are speaking because we are angry, frustrated, or impatient. These are not good reasons for being truthful. In fact, in the presence of these reasons, a good deal of the time we will not be truthful and most of the time we will not be well-received. It is only when our hearts are clear and we stand in the place of love, that we weave together the two currents of relationship that are gentleness and firmness. Only in the presence of both can we try to do what is best for others and can we believe in our own reasons for doing so.

The fear of speaking truth often causes us to accomodate to situations that do not serve the best interests of anybody. Generally, this is because we are afraid of the disapproval we might incur by standing for a point of view that is different from anyone else's. Many times this places us in false situations - situations where we do not express our true feelings for fear of being seen as not-loving - situations where we do not reveal what we think for fear of appearing different and unlikeable.

Ideed, we are different; this is our gift and our destiny. We each have a unique perception to add to the world. But we are also the same. We are also human, struggling with the same learning process that others struggle with. It is our commitment to being human that makes us want to help others become more human as well. It is our commitment to being whole that makes us want to help others become whole as well. Fear limits our capacity to become more human and to become more whole. In the presence of fear, we walk around as half of ourselves rather than as a whole being.

In the end, our capacity to be loving and our capacity to be truthful rest upon the strength of our desire to live life with integrity - to be truly ourselves as God would have us be. Only when we wish for this in a deep way, can we find the courage that is needed to stand for what we believe in and to speak for what we stand. When this is the case, all of our interactions with others become a testimony to the values we hold. If we do not betray ourselves, we support others in becoming more truthful as well. To express our love through both gentleness and firmness is the goal of our wholeness. It is to bring into balance the two currents of healing that can help humanity grow.

THE HEART'S JOURNEY

Beloved Ones, the heart's journey is one that can be taken by anyone at anytime of life, day or night, in the morning or evening of life, in the heights of success or in the depths of emptiness - the heart can be turned to as the foundation for a new beginning and a new way of life, no matter what has taken place before.  For love is not a matter of having to learn something that one does not know.  It is a matter of remembering something that has been covered over or forgotten. Remembrance, more than anything else, depends upon desire - upon wanting to discover the hidden depths of one's being and inner connection with the Divine so that it becomes clear, and bright, and tangible - so that it becomes as real as the most intimate part of oneself.  Often, the connection to the deeper strata of love has become buried in worries, or sorrow, or in concerns for the future or the needs of the present.  Then, it feels as if there is no time for love, no room for love, and that one must wait before involving oneself more in the inner life. This beloveds, is an illusion.  For there is no separation between the inner life and the outer life of the kind that was once thought solid and clear.  What happens outwardly has everything to do with what is maintained inwardly, and what creates a surrounding environment that is filled with grace and blessing is the inner state of being ready to receive grace and blessing, of turning toward the light and of opening the heart with gratitude for what will come.   Without this, there are only the residues of the struggle for survival.  There is only the pain of feeling alone in the world, having only oneself to count on.  Without this, there is the continuing sense of separation that has fueled the alienation and sense of isolation of modern man. But this is no longer necessary, Beloved Ones.  For a veil is being lifted from the collective eyes and heart of humanity so that what seemed entirely real and necessary before, no longer seems so, and what seemed vaporous and unreal before, suddenly moves into the realm of possibility.  The removal of this veil is a function of the earth's transition into greater light.  And, indeed, the light that is infusing the very cells of the Earth's physical body is changing all things that are embodied as well as the consciousness that they hold.  For this reason, it is a time of awakening, a time when more can happen, even for those who feel they have left their hearts behind - even for those who feel their hearts have dried up due to pain and circumstance.  This is because the heart's capacity to respond to new hope is always present. However buried it may be, however much darkness may still remain, it is only the willingness to contain more light that is needed in order that more light be present.  And with greater light, the heart can open again like a flower that has been closed for a period of time due to conditions of lack of light, that suddenly bursts into bloom. Even a small prayer that the heart be opened can be a sufficient beginning to allow the inflow to begin.  Even the smallest of breaths, asking that love fill the heart, can begin the stream of energy that will altogether remove the hardened places of inner being.  It is a matter of knowing that it can be so.  It is a matter of willing it to be so.  It is a matter of trusting that it is so. The current of light that is everpresent at this time, brings with it a quality of upliftment that has not been present before.  It brings with it the intuitive knowledge that there is hope for overcoming the limitations of darkness and despair that has not been possible before.  And with this new hope and upliftment comes a need to make a choice regarding the willingness to trust once again, to come alive once again, to let love and life flow so that the entire psycho-physical organism can be restored to its essential grace and purity.  Some may still feel that this is not possible, given all that has gone before.  But the light that is here and is true can heal all that is wounded, can bind up all that is broken, and can restore the heart of innocence to those who seek such restoration. In place of cynicism, let new hope be present.  In place of doubt, let the willingness to trust, however tentative, be present.  And in the place of the belief in one's own incapacity to do more, feel more, grow more, believe more - let it be known that the possibility for growth is never ending.  For life and growth are perpetual, no matter what choices one makes.  And even if there is a choice in the present to remain closed and to remain self--protective in order to decrease the possibility of disappointment, even then life and growth will flourish, and will make out of the present decision, something that can give rise to new possibilities. For this is the nature of hope, Beloved Ones.  It is not based on how we feel or choose to feel.  It is based on the nature of life itself and on the current that moves through life.  It is Life that creates hope, and that even out of cynicsm, doubt, despair, or suffering, can make all things new.

Love and Forgiveness

The Healing Power of Love

FORGIVENESS

I.  Mercy

At the root of the difficulty in learning to forgive someone is mistaking the action of a person for their being, and not seeing that the two are separate.

Actions that people take are often wrong, misguided, or harmful to others, and these must be opposed or limited to the extent that is needed to protect the welfare and well-being of others.

But souls are composed of much more than their current actions, whether good or bad, even if these actions have gone on for a long time, and even if they are very severe.

Souls need to be judged on different grounds altogether. In order to judge a soul we must know that soul - something that in the most basic sense is not in the human province to do. We must be able to see the causes and reasons - the formative influences that permit a soul to carry out actions that are wrong.

In order to know a soul we must understand their pain and struggle, for these are at the heart of wrong behavior. Most of the time, however, these factors remain hidden in the past - sometimes in the very distant past - and we only see the effect of the cause, not the cause itself.

To see the degree of suffering of a soul in its original form is to know the origin of misguided behavior, since souls start out in a state of purity and attunement to God and goodness, and only later choose pathways that lead them away from this.

 The Garden of Eden story in the Book of Genesis can give us an example of forgiveness of misguided souls on a Divine scale which we may choose to follow.   Also, the story of the prodigal son in the Gospel of Luke

In the first (Gen. 3:1-24), God is seen as casting out souls who have disobeyed the Divine directive to not eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. God does this in order to prevent them from transgressing even further and taking of the Tree of Life which confers immortality. Here, we have an example of the explicit limitation of wrongful behavior, based on the knowing of what souls held at that time within their hearts, motivations, and minds.

This story may or may not make sense to our sense of Divine justice versus compassion or mercy.  However, there is another story related to the eating of the Tree of Knowledge that is more telling of Divine intention - an inner story that reveals God's motives.

In this story, God recognizes that souls can no longer live within the Garden of Eden - that they have cast themselves out of the Garden by virtue of eating the apple, due to a change in their consciousness which has already begun to experience separation.  He also knows what is needed to bring them back. Thus, the casting is perceived as both necessary and inevitable, and also a way back for them. It becomes the Divine Plan, following this, for God to participates in the process of return and redemption, by helping mankind come forward into the state of consciousness that has been lost. This is Divine forgiveness on a grand scale, translated into the saga of mankind's journey home.

In the story of the prodigal son (Luke 11:11-32), similarly, the son separates from the father, taking his inheritance with him, and squandering it in a life of waste and sin. Eventually, he comes to his own conclusion that this is not the life that he wishes, that he has lost all, and wasted all, and that he needs to come home. As he returns to approach his father's house, the father, rather than being rejecting, says to his other son: "Come, let us make a feast, for your brother who was lost has come back again, and it is a time for great rejoicing."

II. Forgiveness

If God can forgive, so must we strive to forgive in relation to those who have transgressed against us. Though the actions of others that are harmful or dangerous must be limited, another's soul must be offered a way back to the place of love and healing so that a new choice can be made other than the one of wrongful behavior.

Forgiveness must take into consideration the fact that a soul who has left the path of light and of right-understanding, often cannot find the way back to it on their own. This is because their inner light has become obscured by their inner darkness. Thus, their way of perceiving things has become distorted. It is only by being offered love and compassion in the presence of this distortion, that many souls can begin in the most minimal way to know that a way back exists, and that hope is possible.

What this requires of us, if we choose to follow the path of forgiveness, is a commitment to leave judgment in the hands of God. In doing this, we commit ourselves to believing that Divine justice will prevail, even in the most difficult or painful situations, and that we, therefore, do not have to take matters into our own hands. This is an article of faith and of faithfulness that we follow, expressed as trust in God's goodness and justice even when it is not visible.

Also, if we follow the path of forgiveness, we must be willing to become agents of redemption for others, rather than agents of punishment. This requires of us a belief in the power of love to heal, to create hope, and to return a soul from disillusionment, despair, and even from the worst kinds of darkness. Where love is strong, as Jesus said, even the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

How do we become agents of redemption in the sense of being willing to forgive? The inner attitudes needed are:

• faith in Divine justice, which prevents us from seeking revenge;

• compassion, which allows us to search for or postulate a degree of invisible suffering in those who commit acts of harm toward others; and

• belief in the power of love and the purposes of love to change mankind's consciousness as well as the consciousness of individuals, returning them to God and to truth.

To stand in judgment of others, whether these others be individuals, groups, nations, or the world, implies a willingness to stand in the present while asking the past to justify itself. To forgive others, on the other hand, implies a willingness to stand in the future in viewing the past, while asking what possible future could redeem the past, changing its present course and bringing it more into alignment with what is right and good.

This is the place on which love stands, for love has hope for all possible futures for individual persons and for the world as a whole. Love does not rely on the present context of viewing mistakes, no matter what these mistakes are. It says: How can I bring the beloved one into a deeper knowing of the light that lies within them so that past darkness can be no more?

This is love's answer to the problem of justice and forgiveness, and it brings to this problem all the mercy, trust, and hope that is possible in the human heart that is aligned with God.

III. The Need To Blame

In order to let go of the need to blame others for what they do, there must be an understanding of the usefulness of blame to the ego as a way of creating the illusion of power.

All blame stems from the choice we make to be angry rather than to feel hurt.

All blame has, at its root, the desire to redress or correct an event, situation, or occurrence so that we are not powerless in the face of it - so that we can do something about it.

To give up blame means to give up a large portion of 'doing something about' being hurt. It does not require stopping ourselves from preventing wrong behavior in the sense of taking action. It means stopping ourselves from feeling entitled to anger or rage while opposing or correcting such wrong behavior.

This is a critical distinction that involves our deepest feelings and our deepest notions of what it means to be alive. Without justifying blame, we become willing to absorb hurt, to be vulnerable to life. We become willing to accept the pain that comes along with life's many happenings.

Some people blame others for the misfortunes that come to them. Some people blame God. In both cases, at the root of blame is an attitude that life is unfair and that something else should have happened other than what did.

But what if we gave up the idea that life is unfair? What if we lived in the understanding that things come to us and happen to us for reasons that we do not know, but that ultimately, even when it seems impossible to our hearts, they come to us so that we can heal and grow.

What if instead of feeling that life was unfair, we felt aligned with God's purposes for us and God's love for us as we go through suffering? This is the key question in the face of the possibility of giving up blame. Can we believe in God's goodness in the presence of unwanted suffering? Can we believe in the goodness of life in the presence of pain? Can we believe that God's purpose, unknown as it may be, is always good, and that we are being led somewhere on a journey of healing as we move through the ups and downs of life?

Without a doubt, this position requires a great deal of faith - and more than faith, it requires conviction regarding the reality of God. Without this, blame becomes the human alternative by which we attempt to set things right when things are wrong. We accuse, we get angry, we try to restore an emotional balance within ourselves that does not leave us feeling helpless. The power that blame seems to give is due to the fact that it overrides feelings of helplessness. It leaves us with a sense of being able to direct our energy toward something or someone so that we are able to do something in the face of pain. To give up doing is to be willing to be powerless, to be willing to feel hurt, and we can only do this when trust in life and in God is great enough to allow us to let go of control.

To absorb hurt is difficult, but not as impossible as it might seem. It requires a fuller understanding of what it means to live with an open heart.

An open heart seeks to be fully present to life - to all of life - to live it, to feel it, to respond to it, to take risks, to suffer the consequences.

An open heart does not protect itself. It is there for life's events to affect, come what may.

The desire to live with an open heart makes possible the absorption of hurt when necessary, and allows us to let go of accusations. An open heart is willing to be vulnerable and to feel pain if it must, not by choice, but if it must.

A closed heart, by contrast, protects itself at all costs. It erects walls, defenses, and barriers around itself, and positions soldiers at its gates so that only those who are deemed to be 'safe' can gain entrance. The choice to live with an open or closed heart is one that we each make as we go through life, and we make it repeatedly in the face of all of life's circumstances. With God, such a choice becomes possible and credible because it is based on the continuing support we feel from within to learn, to grow, and to get through anything and everything. Without God, such a choice is also possible, but is much more difficult to maintain because the heart must absorb pain on its own.

In the end, what happens with blame depends on what happens to our choice concerning how we want to live. This choice determines our attitudes when crises arise, and can either push us toward a greater degree of disillusionment and despair when we cannot control what life brings to us, or can lift us to a new level of faith and trust in God and in life.

IV. Self-Forgiveness

Among the more difficult things to forgive are the limitations we perceive in ourselves, the mistakes we have made, the betrayals we have enacted, the ways in which we have let both God and man down. These things are generally more difficult to forgive than the actions of others.

Self-blame, in contrast to blame of others, usually lives in a deeper part of our psyche than anger. This is because it is so painful to feel, that most of the time we bury it well so that we only feel the edges of it rather than the whole thing.

Self-accusations come from what we perceive to be our real failures to live up to our hopes, our dreams, our ideals, and our standards. They often occur silently as we feel disappointment in ourselves or a loss of hope for changing things. In such cases, we deposit layer upon layer of shame and blame in our hearts for the things we have done, for the things we have failed to do, and for the things we have wished to do but could not - in short, for all the ways in which we have let ourselves down.

Self-blame and shame are closely related, the first usually having more specificity than the second, with blame for things that can be pointed to as particular failures. Shame, too, can be specific, but it can also be a generalized feeling about one's whole self - a sense of being bad or wrong in an overall way.

Sometimes self-blame comes from real actions that we have taken - actions that were very wrong that hurt others deeply, that we in fact knew were wrong at the time. Sometimes self-blame comes from feeling that we should have known better in a particular circumstance, even though we don't know how we could have known.

No matter what the origin of self-blame, in each instance in which we seek forgiveness for ourselves, the first place to seek it is in our own heart and in God's heart. In order to do so, we must be willing to feel remorse and regret for past wrong actions so that we know in our hearts that they were really wrong, and feel in our hearts remorse for having hurt others or ourselves.

Without remorse, forgiveness is not possible and healing is not possible. Jesus said: "Go, and sin no more" along with the healing he offered, and by this he meant that in order for the healing to last and for change to be real, the motive toward wrongdoing had to be wiped clean or erased. If the motive were not erased, the person could not hold the forgiveness and healing that were being offered. So it is with remorse today in relation to past wrong actions. The motive to continue to do wrong has to be erased or wiped out in each instance if we are truly to forgive ourselves.  And we can only forgive ourselves to the extent that remorse and regret have actually eradicated such motives.

When remorse is present along with the desire for self-forgiveness and God-forgiveness, we create the situation of a clean wound and healing can begin. Self-forgiveness can begin. The process begins with remorse and the desire to forgive ourselves and be forgiven by God.  It continues with the growth of understanding regarding how to love ourselves and others better.

Sometimes it is very hard to forgive ourselves because we feel what we have done is unforgiveable. Sometimes we are able to forgive others more quickly who have done exactly the same thing as we have, perhaps for similar reasons. In such a case, we are able to accept their limitations but not our own. We are hard on ourselves and forgiving toward them.

When self-forgiveness seems beyond reach and the struggle to feel it seems beyond possibility, it is time to stretch even further toward God's heart - a heart so large that it can even forgive rejection of itself as in the Garden of Eden story - a heart so large that it can love any soul, no matter what that soul has done. This heart forgives us when forgiveness is sought, even when we can't forgive ourselves.

In addition, when forgiveness seems hard, it is time to remind ourselves that we are souls, learning as we live, needing to be taught, striving for perfection, but learning through our mistakes. As souls, we need to respect the learning process in ourselves and to know that we cannot grow up before we grow up. First, we are children, then we are youths, then we are adults, both physically and spiritually.

The learning process of souls is one of the great mysteries of life, for it is life itself and the experiences of life that are the teacher. Often, these experiences have had to be painful in order that we learn what we need to. As more light fills our consciousness, however, learning can take place with progressively less pain.  Having trust in our own progression can give us a willingness to fall down and get up again, to make mistakes and to try again, without self-blame, but as a young child, with a knowledge of where we will someday be.

Having confidence in the learning process of our own soul to succeed where we have failed before is one of the pillars of self-forgiveness.

Having confidence in God's heart to forgive us where we cannot forgive ourselves is the second pillar.

Both can lead us past self-blame into the openness and reaching out to love that is our heart's desire. Both can lead us back to God, and to God's eternal offer of redemption.

Love and Forgiveness

How can these two words, love and forgiveness change your whole perspective on life? First, you must put your trust in something bigger than yourself. You may call it God, Spirit, Budda, whatever your faith is, trust that it has a bigger plan (could it be a lesson in forgiveness?) than your everyday troubles. What is the most important lesson you can learn while here on earth? Love and Forgiveness. But how do you get to the Love part if you have hatred in your heart? Forgive. It sounds so simple and yet it can be the most difficult thing that you can do in this lifetime.

You were wronged or someone betrayed you, how can you let that go? Forgive. Forgive and it will set your heart free. Here are some steps that can get you there. Feel your anger, feel your sadness, feel whatever it is you need to get all those emotions out, write it down and then throw it away. Give yourself a certain timeframe in which you will no longer continue to go on with those emotions. Now comes the hard part, trying to convince yourself that the other person deserves to be forgiven. Every time this hurt comes into your heart, say to yourself "I forgive "name" for what they have done". Every time you start to go over the scenario, and start to get angry or sad, instead replace it with "I forgive "name" for what they have done". You might not believe what you are saying at first. But sending that message out into the universe will eventually help break the chain of black energy that links you together with an invisible line of hate.

Hopefully it will hit you one day. You can let it go, the hate, the anger, the betrayal, how you were wronged and in a peaceful loving moment truly feel that forgiveness. The best possible way to break the chain of hate that connects you by an invisible link, is to stand and face this person and truly believing and feeling in your heart what you are about to say to them. "No matter what you have done to me, I forgive you" It is truly disarming, and can break that link that binds you. That's it! It may be a long and hard task to get to that one simple line.

What does it feel like? Once you have set each other free, your heart feels lighter, you have an overwhelming feeling of peace. You suddenly understand it all, the reason you are here, the lessons that you need to learn while on this earth plane. You will never be the same, because in every situation you can begin to feel compassion, humility and gratitude toward your fellow travelers here on earth. You can LOVE again. You are a radiant being moving forward in life.

Be Well

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