Living a life of forgiveness. How can this be something I don't know about, I am a Christian now, afterall. Doesn't living a life of forgiveness come automatically with the church membership? I want to follow Jesus, but I get stuck in my stuff.
So here I am at the next section, part, process, path, whatever I chose to call it-- of my journey in authenticity. A life time (nearly 50 years) of wounds that have made it impossible for me to live a life of forgiveness, to forgive myself and to forgive others for not being -- what? perfect? Maybe for not being, and for not allowing me to be either. Thank you God for teaching me it is about progress not perfection! Life is too short to waste more time on being angry, upset, resentful, po'd, passive agressive, just plain old mean to other human beings...
No More,! with God's help, as I am unable to heal these wounds in my power.
2 Corinthinians 5:17-19 NIV
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconcilation: that God was reconciling thw world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them.
The Sunflower
On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal
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