“When you don’t forgive, it is like controlling the other person. Control is the ego’s best way to keep safe.” —Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D.

When we forgive, we engage spiritual law. Thus in the act of pardoning, we are harmonious and united with our inherent Divinity, which is love. There are times when to show mercy to someone is not easy. We may have piles of feelings and thoughts to process and clear out to reach the capacity of loving-forgiveness within ourselves.

Forgiveness reaches deep down into our toes and is felt in the farthest places of our souls. Imagine what is lifted up in our lives when we make the choice to release someone, many, or something from the activity of mistaken judgment or wrong doing. The benefits and results of forgiving occur quickly once we genuinely forgive.  

It is always the right time of the year to clear away and make room for the new. Forgive! A list can help–writing down individual names, places, happenings, and things to be forgiven. Including oneself is a necessity to tap into the greatest power in order to have complete forgiveness, which is extending Divine loving grace to another, others or anything. 

Our master teachers have revealed the way to the depths of love and release–engage with the indwelling Spirit. An illustration of this is found in the Bible account of Jesus words from the cross in Luke 23:34: “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.”  

We have the capacity for such alignment and oneness with our innate Spiritual Presence and Potential. In prayerful unity with our Divine nature we can forgive and completely release any inner burdens and blocks in the process. I invite you to a meditation exercise in the Meditations Category, opening the way for forgiveness to occur titled “I Forgive” dated December 29, 2015.