Unforgiveness is an impediment to putting your 2-word purpose to work. Therefore, loving and forgiving are essential travel companions on your on-purpose path. When your heart is assaulted, forgiveness is a head decision made in hopeful anticipation to soon heal your heart. Extreme grievances may require repeated acts of forgiving to dissolve the hard shell formed by a hurting heart.
The Prayer attributed to St. Francis of Assisi (below) elegantly conveys the seeming paradox in the dependence of opposites.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
You hold the power to set the trajectory of your earthly heart. Your well-being and peace depend upon your willingness to forgive God, Yourself, and Others. Right now, decide where to start forgiving so the loving can begin.
