How difficult is it for most people to forgive! To forgive both others and just as importantly - to forgive self!
I believe that as soon as we develop these most important values and gifts we start to truly experience the meaning of life ie LOVE!
A broken relationship tears away at us. It makes us so feel less of a complete human person. It makes us feel that love is less, or in fact missing, in our lives.
To make that first move in the reconciliation process starts both us and the other/s off once again on the road to a completed loving relationship. When we offer forgiveness to someone or group who has hurt us, we are giving others the chance to also heal themselves of the hurt and lack of love they are feeling. If they respond positively that road to recovery is close at hand.
It is a challenge to continually put out that hand of forgiveness, particulary to those who have hurt us considereably, or continually over a period of time. However, to achieve that love, we must time and again offer forgiveness.
The hand of forgiveness will in most cases be offered in return, but not always instantaneously, but eventually. This is the true challenge - to be prepared to work on the reply and be prepared to wait!
The other major challenge is to forgive ourselves for the hurt we have caused others, as well as ourselves. We need to learn to let go! It is so much easier to let go if we know that others have forgiven us.
Sometimes there are those times when it is all within ourselves. It is in these times that we need to act in a similar way to when we forgive others and they forgive us ie we forgive ourselves.
When we are able to forgive others and ourselves, we are truly on the way to appreciating in the truest sense an aspect of the meaning of life - love!
Written by Bryan Foster at www.bryan-foster.com
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