Our proof to our own self that we have turned our will and our life over to the care of God is in forgiveness.
Forgiveness is not forgiveness unless it flows from us without our will attached. We can smile, feel "want to" and make nice-nice while dancing on the head of a pin...and be no closer to forgiveness than we were when first we were gifted with the need to forgive.
We can, and usually do, call all that forgiveness, but it is not, it is jive. Our heart knows. Our soul knows. Our Father knows. And our Father knows jive when we're dishing it.
What our heart and our soul know is that we have built a forgiveness look-alike, but the need, the reason for forgiving, is still an ache in our gut.
Here it is...Enlightenment 101: All on our own, we are powerless to forgive.
We must shuck our shields and cry for help for our own self. That cry unites us with the person whose name is on our pain...and forgiveness flows out from within.
Loose it and let it go.
Thank you.
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