To Forgive May Be Divine
To forgive….feels like an almost impossible task…when we’ve been so hurt.
It seems if we forgive them then they get all the benefits of that forgiveness and we’re left sitting with all the broken pieces they left us with. And yet, if we don’t forgive them, then we’re left with our own hurt and anger which turns inside ourselves ripping us apart.
And it’s true. We are left holding all the shit they left us with, sometimes for years….which is what makes forgiveness so fucking hard to do
But then I wonder…if love comes from a divine place as they say, then maybe that’s where forgiveness comes from too? And since forgiveness is so hard to achieve whereas we just know we love someone, maybe they both come from a divine place?
So I’m thinking that we don’t ever just “do” forgiveness. Instead, maybe like love, the only thing we can do is want to forgive….and therein lies the beginning of what is possible.
Then maybe at that point, like love, once we really want to forgive that person, that’s when the finger of God moves in and helps us to actually forgive?
-dd May 2018