How do you know you have forgiven?
Continuing the series on forgiveness and release from resentment anger and other negative emotions, we have the question:
How do you know you have forgiven?
Many simply claim that they have forgiven and are free of anger, resentment and other negative emotions toward the other.
These people may even believe themselves to be free of negative feelings toward the person who has hurt them (note: I write person but often the entity which has hurt us is an institution).
The test for real forgiveness as opposed to merely fooling ourselves is can we send out total unconditional love and blessings toward the other? We may also ask if we wish success, prosperity and happiness for the other.
Now, when you forgive it does not mean that you have to ever have anything to do with the other. You can send your blessings and love from the distance.
And when you can wish the other total success and good luck, you know that at last you have fully forgiven (for now) – you see forgiveness is a process and the passage of time makes one forgive more each day. However, there are some acts which take much longer to forgive. Even then the goal should be to forgive fully as not forgiving only hurts ourselves.
The other may not even know or care about our resentments which eat into our souls.
But at times, even though we are clear an event makes us remember the original event and we may need to work more on forgiving.
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