NOT TO BECOME BUT TO BE

I am convinced that our sacred goal is to be a forgiving person. Not to become a forgiving person...to Be a forgiving person.

Desiring...praying...to become a forgiving person just holds forgiveness out in front of us, just out of reach. So we pray harder. That's  just another self-determined objective...the reasoning mind still on the job. And still trying to figure it out, get it right, succeed!

To Be a forgiving person is to BE. To stand in the light and in the sight of Almighty God within us, without us, and not know. Not know how to Be a forgiving person. But willing to name our own self a forgiving person. Simply, I forgive. To repeat that as we breathe. The only thing difficult about that is remembering.

The good news is God doesn't punish...God just loves. Forget, and get loved. Remember, and same deal, be loved and in the same measure.

We, however, will self punish...with ugly words and thoughts about self, me, my stupidity. That, yet and yet again, is ego, trying to bypass God's will, God's way. And there's the hook: God's will is forgiveness. I get to forgive myself...and my ego.

My sacred goal is to be a forgiving person...I forgive.

Thank you.