ON WALKING FREE IN OUR OWN MIND

We will never be free of our nemesis by badmouthing him, by responding in kind to her, by using their brains to do our thinking with.

Whatever victim-memory we are clinging to, from childhood unto now, that is the God of our own understanding purely because it holds all power over us, over our thinking, feeling, doing, being. This is especially true if our memories are right, and we really were unloved, unneeded, unwanted and unappreciated and made to suffer for it.

Our freedom, our peace never comes from garnering understanding sympathy in the reliving of those memories for there is no love in that. In fact, we are not seeking love in the retelling, we are seeking validation of our hurt. In getting that validation, we seek more of the same for it proves we are right in the castigation of our tormentor(s). We will never walk free in our own mind because we are not choosing freedom...i.e., love; we are choosing pay-back, revenge...i.e., hurt.

We consciously choose the freedom of forgiving by turning our thoughts to God, or more specifically, by concentrating on the things of God...rosebuds, rainbows, babies, puppies...love.

We do not to seek to know how God can help us forgive since we do not know how...for we never will know how. Forgiveness is God's, and we get to go anew each necessary time to God, humbly trusting thy will be done. 

We rest there knowing we have handed it off to God...by our "I forgive" and "Thank you."

Thank you.