Recently, I have been thinking a lot about forgiveness. Looking back at my life and the events that have impacted me the most, I realized that inside myself, I was carrying around a whole lot of resentment, anger, and bitterness. You can imagine the toll that carrying around all of this weight has taken on my heart.
I used to be of the mind set that there were just some things that were unforgivable - infidelity, harming a child, inflicting intentional pain on others for your own satisfaction, using your body for attention or affection, breaking the law, murder, etc. I used to believe that these offenses were personal offenses and offenses that victimize and anytime you victimize, there is some sort of level of intent and bad intent should simply not be forgiven.
I don't think that way anymore and it is just another example of the beautiful ways I feel God working in my life, particularly after I made the decision to become apart of the Catholic church. It is as if I was living in a dark room and all of a sudden, I found the light switch.
I will write more in depth on this later, but this has been on my mind today and I wanted to write it out before I meditated upon it and further.
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God has really blessed you, Amanda.
ReplyDeleteI will keep you in my prayers.
Indeed, everything can be forgiven. It does not make the forgiven act right, but forgiveness is not about right or wrong. It is also more about the forgivee than the forgiven for if we carry around anger, resentment, hurt, and other negative emotions, we only blacken our own souls. I am glad you have learned to forgive expansively and have joined the Catholic church. Welcome, sister!
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