THE IMPORTANCE OF FORGIVENESS

I've recently gone through quite a lot of forgiving lately and learning why it is so important, so I thought I would share to save you some time. If you think that it's an easy thing to do, you're wrong~ it isn't meant to be easy. We must learn to live as The Lord God lives, patiently teaching and forgiving ourselves and others every day. If we want love, we must love. If we want forgiveness, we must forgive even those we don't like very much, even those who have stolen from us and have done unmentionable wrongs, even those who don't love themselves very much. We are called to live His way.

In Neale Donald Walsch's book Friendship with God, Neale writes about the need to destroy the illusion of separation. When we forgive others, we are forgiving ourselves, the part of ourselves that is part of The Lord God. We are not separate, we are One. If we hurt others, we hurt a part of ourselves, so treat others as you would like to be treated so that it doesn't get to where you have to forgive anything. But if a brother or sister asks a hundred times to be forgiven, forgive him a hundred times because that's what The Lord God does to and for you every day.