The human sense may be our base on which we start life, necessary to get us going, but essential to shed bit by bit and little by little until, in God's time, we realize we must exchange our base, the egoic mind, to let the divine flow out.
Forgiveness is the last place we look or are willing to look...it is, however, the Open, Sesame, to our divine nature...to give of that which we most desire, to give from our toenails up, to give with our thoughts, both hands and our heart. There...that is the essence of forgiveness...of living a turned-over-to-God life.
It does not come easy. It does not come by our thinking or talking or analyzing or planning...all of which are the necessary path we must take to realize and experience that we are going down that wrong road again, still.
We pray thank you for every misstep, for every anxious moment, for every self-determined objective...face it, they have delivered us to the place we need to be: Where we turn our will and our life over to the care of God for the benefit of others.
Accepting as fact that the benefit is for others takes a lot longer to experience, but we are headed in the right direction...toward forgiveness as our way out of self into God.
God does not eliminate or punish mistakes. He uses them for transformative purposes. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, September 16, 2022
Thank you.
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