While nobody’s directly asked me how I’ve forgiven those who’ve trespassed against me I have asked myself after the fact during a reflection or two. Before my reasoning was because it’s a gift I give to myself, with forgiveness I’m able to free myself from the chains that bind me to that person, the chains of anger and resentment that were and are detrimental to not only my mental well-being but my physical health as well.
Thank you for the birds right this second. It’s 6:55 in the morning and I take Tuesdays (and Saturdays) off from skating to remind my feet how much I love them. Plus it’s the two days I stay in bed until it’s time for yoga. I’m enjoying the most comfortable bed on the planet while I’ve got it. But yes the bird(s), I absolutely love the birds that sing right outside my bedroom window and today it’s as if they’re singing just for me, it’s beautiful.
I have asked myself how I did it, how was I able to forgive some what would appear to be unforgivable acts, especially by those I was supposed to trust the most. At the time my answer was simply for myself but now that I’m further along on my journey I can’t help but feel like I’ve also known the real reason all along, intuitively if you will and now feel as though I’m starting to experience more and more remembrance and thank goodness for that because it just makes sense.
We are all children of the creative source, of God, of this universe and we are all seen with unconditional love from all three. That’s all there is is unconditional love on the other side and you can’t have unconditional love with any type of judgment. People who step out of the state of unconditional love and either start going down the dark (for lack of a better word) path and are doing harm are ultimately doing harm to themselves first.
I don’t think the majority of humanity has quite grasped the concept that how we treat others is how we are treating ourselves and in all fairness I didn’t remember that until I was reminded, and now you know too. It all comes down to our interconnectedness, our connection to source and to each other. When somebody is headed down the wrong path we have to have compassion for them because they are so far out of the state of unconditional love.
They’ve stepped not only out of the state of love but also out of reach so to speak from God which is silly because that’s never out of reach from unconditional love’s perspective, only theirs and I don’t know about you but that makes me a little sad. The best thing I can do for them, in my opinion, is forgive them in hopes that they will someday forgive themselves. Everything comes down to forgiveness.
When you fall so out of grace with love you start lashing out and\or act in immoral ways and if you ask me we’re all guilty of this on some level. I may present myself as an ambassador of love today but I wasn’t always this cute little earth angel and a big part of that was being able to forgive myself. Whether I was healing intentional karma or not I still had to be able to forgive myself so then why wouldn’t I be able to, why wouldn’t I want to forgive others?
We’re all here for the same reason and that’s to learn and grow so when someone has fallen so far out of grace with the frequency of who they are when they’re on the other side of the veil, all I want to do is help them and the first thing I can do after having compassion is to forgive them. This is before I even question how new their soul might be. New souls join this evolutionary process of growth every single day.
We are here to experience and we are here to love and when somebody has stepped so far out of their frequency of love the best thing I can do for them, especially as an old soul, is show them unconditional love in hopes that it may ignite the light we all have emanating from our souls, even if it’s just a little.
This is exactly why I find compassion for the unjust.
May we all have peace in our minds, joy in our hearts and love in our life. Love isn’t just an emotion, it’s a state of being.
Namaste