Real Talk!

Something you have to forgive someone for.

I am a little confused... the way this reads, it seems to be saying something that I haven't forgiven someone for, already... oh man, have I forgiven people...

I once directed a play for the local theatre guild... and at our first rehearsal, I handed out the following:

Forgiveness

“is an act of courage
because it means we use the past
injury as a way to heal our own soul,
forgive ourselves and forgive
the other person.

Forgiveness empowers by ‘unhooking’ us
From the past and the people in it
Who have injured us.
It reclaims our control over our own selves
And allows us to move into our future
With clean energy.

Forgiveness does not condone what someone has done to us;
On the contrary, it forces us to acknowledge the darkness of the act
And its consequences. But it also forces us
To acknowledge our participation in both the act

And the perpetuation of its injury within us.

Forgiveness allows us to heal ourselves with the choice to let go.

It gives us the opportunity to become our own healers
Rather than to wait for the other person to correct the injury.
The latter position is the one of the child and the victim:
The former, the one of the empowered healer.”

By Elizabeth Stratton
“Touching Spirit”

I never did explain why... but, by the end of the run, it should have been all too clear... and if it wasn't... please be assured, I forgive.