I was given the most wonderful advice recently...pearls beyond price actually. I was told that I must make a decision to be a forgiving person and to forgive in the instant of need. That's it.
I was gifted with the realization that to forgive in the instant of need is the secret to being a forgiving person: We must be ready the moment before the arrow of resistance enters our consciousness. Only in that instant can we with God's grace respond not with feelings of hurt, harmed or a desire for pay-back...all fear, simply fear...but with the certain knowledge that this, too, is ours to forgive.
This is living in the now...in the consciousness of forgiveness.
To be a forgiving person is to be released from the bondage of self, free from our reasoning mind's dictates. We cannot wait to "think it through" for therein lives the ego's trap. There is nothing to think through when we are going to forgive no matter what.
None of this is news to me...all of us seeking still more spiritual growth have been learning it for years. It is that this is the difference between learning the words (which too often means "learning how you need to do it") and realizing that I personally need to be a forgiving person...now. Right now.
I will with the grace of God and a little help from my friends be heading in this direction for the rest of my life...no matter how falteringly.
Thank you.
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