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| A tree imprisoned with ice is like a frozen heart. |
Last night as I drove people home, I was telling somebody about my life. I said that I get my heart broken about once a week. Mostly I hurt for what happens to other people. I see their pain and I absorb it. I see murders, homeless, addiction, abuse, poverty and more everyday. I think the worst is when I witness bitter people become contagious and infect lonely people who are like innocent lambs being lead to a slaughter.
Father forgive them, they don't know what their doing.
Bitterness and anger is like leprosy and it eats away at the flesh of the heart.The disease of strife and division eats away at relationships. Unless the heart is treated, it will calcify and harden into a final death stage named hate. There is nobody that has ever been born who is perfect.
Every human being ever created;
has been,
is,
or will be
guilty of a moral transgression against another.
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| Forgiving yourself can help point the way of forgiveness for a friend. |
Forgiveness will bring the intervention of healing and prevent more hardening of the heart. Yes, the hardened heart may become flesh again and be free to love. The first person we need to forgive is ourselves. In an almost unconscious way, our hurt blinds us to the fact of our own complicity in the situation that we are mad about. When we are mad at somebody. the first thing we should do is turn the microscope on our own heart and ask some questions: "Have I ever acted this way?
"Do I treat people this way?"
"Is the person who hurt me having a hard time in life?"
"Are they even aware of the pain they are causing?"
"Am I the cause of the pain in my relationships?"
"Do I sabotage relationships because of a faulty conscience that says: 'Relationships don't last because everybody leaves me so I will reject them before they reject me?"
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| This tree seems to have Jesus hanging the way he did on the Cross. Even in the midst of enormous pain, he talked about forgiveness. He looked down at his torturers and said: "Father forgive then for they don't know what they are doing" |
We cannot change other people we can only ask God's help in changing ourselves. Healing can become contagious as we forgive ourselves. People will begin to reach out and touch the hem of your garment as they hunger for the healing that we carry because we have learned to love through brokenness.
FORGIVE
Jesus loves you and so do I.
"Find new ways,
in as many
ways,
in more excellent ways,
on all of your days,
to show love."
Bob Kuebler
YWAP Director
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