INHERENT FORGIVENESS

Idle thought or blinding flash: Forgiveness is the essence that holds civilization together...whether we know it or not.

According to me, forgiveness is not a think-it-out action, it is a movement from the heart with the suffering of heartbreak leading/pushing it forward.

It seems that all of our spiritual studies have brought us to the realization that originally our best hope was for peace, goodness and charity...or our idea of same. 

What we learn is that we are born with the reality of those as the divine within us. In our journey through life we experience the need not to get peace, goodness and charity, but to freely give peace, goodness and charity...the beginning of realizing the fullness of forgiveness.

To find inherent forgiveness is to experience the living God at the onset of a less-than-wonderful event. To our reasoning mind this is an Oh No! appearing, yet underneath we find this is a benefit from God for our still more spiritual growth. 

This usually requires an initial period of breast-beating, wailing and whining...the egoic mind having its say. The way is then cleared for forgiveness, i.e., the realization that this, too, is of God...for my benefit, proving again that my life is lived according to God's will whether I know it or not.    

Life is not to get, life is to give. Every time. For every reason. Without fail. Thank you.

Forgiveness is the great thawing of all logic, reason, and worthiness. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, September 16, 2022 

Thank you.