Forgive Now

[Manuel Tavares]

Forgive Now
Heavenletters
Via Gloria Wendroff
https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/06/forgive-now.html

When you have forgiven everyone for everything — that is, when you have released everyone from bondage to the past — that is when you will pass through the eye of the needle. Release everyone from the past. Whatever thread of accusation you have carried in your heart, release it now. Forgive erring hearts, and you will forgive your own. Forgive means to let go. Forgive with all your might and all your heart. Forgive all for your sins, beloved, for as you accused another, you accused yourself.

All your life, you have only spoken to yourself. Whomever you yelled at, it was yourself. Whomever you stormed against, it was yourself. Whatever wrong you saw, you committed it. You pulled it out and identified it as wrong. You nourished it, and you nourished it for the world so the world could never let go of wrong. The accuser is a culprit as well as the accused. Everyone is innocent, or no one is.

One who steals goods and hides them acts from ignorance. One who steals love from himself and hides it has robbed himself for the sake of petulance. He bares his own cupboard. For every stone he throws against another, he throws two at himself. And yet he accuses those who throw stones as well as those who are pelted with them.

Abandon the subterfuge of disdain. It is only a cover-up for despair. You would make yourself higher. Sitting on a throne of judgment doesn’t make you higher. Whatever you disintegrate, you disintegrate yourself. Whatever barriers you put up, you bar yourself. Whatever you imprison, you imprison yourself. You cannot put another in jail without going there yourself. You cannot abandon another without abandoning yourself. +++
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