I am grateful for forgiveness. Grateful, for all it is and grateful that it is our topic this week and will be for next week as well. Forgiveness is immense and ongoing and was brought to us by two wonderful souls: thank you for your devotion and light.
With gratitude in my Heart, I’d like to start with an inspiration on the Reason we truly Forgive. For sometimes, if we know the reason we do something, it makes even a hard thing easier.
With Love,
Atala
Why We Forgive
When you are sad, when you are suffering, I Am here. I Am your friend; I Am waiting for you, on the other side of the door. I Am here, waiting for you, ready to go to the movies with you, to play Parcheesi, or split a sandwich, take a walk, give you a high-five or show you what I did in school today.
I Am waiting for you to learn to forgive yourself, your past, your memories, your pain and your fear, so you can simply be here with me today. For I Am your sister, your brother, your friend, your mother, your co-worker, I Am everyone who shares this life, this breath, this energy we call Love, with you. I Am here. I Am here today, now, and I Am in everyone you meet and everyone you see.
When you forgive your past, arrive here in this moment and you see Me, you become Love. You become God to me. You bring Heaven to Earth when you see Me. The way you bring Heaven to Earth is by forgiving your past, your pain, your sorrow and your fear. You make Me - you make Love - more important than your pain, your fear, your regret and your feeling that you can’t do it and that it’s too hard.
Forgiveness is asking Divine Love to help and support us by releasing our burdens and gifting us into a better way to live. Forgiveness is actively inviting Love into our lives and into our Hearts. Forgiveness is asking Love to come, to take our poor habits, our fears and our pain and instead make us part of Love's Solution here on Earth.
Forgiveness is our first and daily step toward living here as part and partner to Love Itself.
Forgiveness is saying, “Okay, Love, Jesus, Yeshua, Christ, I am done with the way I’ve been doing things. And, I’m ready to be Done and start a new way. I need a new way of thinking, behaving and living. I’m ready to give up my bad habits. I’m ready to sheer this sheep I’ve been and get a new coat and I’d like this coat to be made of Love.”
What do we need to know to Forgive?
We need to know that we have options. We need to know that it is an option to let go of a behavior that doesn’t serve us, a thought that hurts us, a feeling we don’t like or even fear.
Fear is a huge slayer of Love. We need to know that we can release fear and to begin to live inside Love.
We need to know that we can make this choice and that, if we are not making this choice it is because we’re afraid or simply not used to making this choice, yet. However, we have the option to start forgiving, any day, any time, any instant, any moment, we choose. The option is Always Open.
What do we need to do to Forgive?
Trust that it is possible. You will hear me say, “I Can.” Another phrase I find very useful is, “It is Possible.” “It is Possible” lends you to an openhearted state of mind. If you have this tool; you are ready to move mountains. Big mountains.
How Do We Forgive Ourselves?
This is a great question, because we have a number of “selves.” I remember a story by Sandra Cisceneros, in which the protagonist was a young girl who spoke about feeling like she was every age she had ever been 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3… all at the same time. It’s a little like that when we try to forgive ourselves. What we are trying to forgive is a remembrance of a thing past, of someone we were or thought we were, and often judged ourself harshly for being.
However… right now, we can focus on the present moment. We do have the option to stop thinking about the past and, more importantly, to stop agonizing over it, spinning around that fragment of a self from the past. We can change what we are thinking now. That is the prelude to forgiveness.
This day, to-day is the story, the beginning, and the rest of your life. You are precious. You are Love. You can begin again new, today.
With Love,
Atala
Why We Forgive
When you are sad, when you are suffering, I Am here. I Am your friend; I Am waiting for you, on the other side of the door. I Am here, waiting for you, ready to go to the movies with you, to play Parcheesi, or split a sandwich, take a walk, give you a high-five or show you what I did in school today.
I Am waiting for you to learn to forgive yourself, your past, your memories, your pain and your fear, so you can simply be here with me today. For I Am your sister, your brother, your friend, your mother, your co-worker, I Am everyone who shares this life, this breath, this energy we call Love, with you. I Am here. I Am here today, now, and I Am in everyone you meet and everyone you see.
When you forgive your past, arrive here in this moment and you see Me, you become Love. You become God to me. You bring Heaven to Earth when you see Me. The way you bring Heaven to Earth is by forgiving your past, your pain, your sorrow and your fear. You make Me - you make Love - more important than your pain, your fear, your regret and your feeling that you can’t do it and that it’s too hard.
You climb the mountain and you do it for me, for your sister, for your brother, for your mother, for your aunt, for your son, because you know that each of us is Love and capable of doing the same. We are all capable of being God here. And, our first step is to Forgive our fear and our pain and see that we can do this.
Amen
What is Forgiveness?
Forgiveness is the Divine gift we are all granted that lets us take passage from where we have been caught to where we ought to be.
Forgiveness is an inalienable right. It is a gift we are meant to use to get us out of trouble. It is our bridge from stress to wholeness.
Amen
What is Forgiveness?
Forgiveness is the Divine gift we are all granted that lets us take passage from where we have been caught to where we ought to be.
Forgiveness is an inalienable right. It is a gift we are meant to use to get us out of trouble. It is our bridge from stress to wholeness.
Forgiveness is asking Divine Love to help and support us by releasing our burdens and gifting us into a better way to live. Forgiveness is actively inviting Love into our lives and into our Hearts. Forgiveness is asking Love to come, to take our poor habits, our fears and our pain and instead make us part of Love's Solution here on Earth.
Forgiveness is our first and daily step toward living here as part and partner to Love Itself.
Forgiveness is saying, “Okay, Love, Jesus, Yeshua, Christ, I am done with the way I’ve been doing things. And, I’m ready to be Done and start a new way. I need a new way of thinking, behaving and living. I’m ready to give up my bad habits. I’m ready to sheer this sheep I’ve been and get a new coat and I’d like this coat to be made of Love.”
What do we need to know to Forgive?
We need to know that we have options. We need to know that it is an option to let go of a behavior that doesn’t serve us, a thought that hurts us, a feeling we don’t like or even fear.
Fear is a huge slayer of Love. We need to know that we can release fear and to begin to live inside Love.
We need to know that we can make this choice and that, if we are not making this choice it is because we’re afraid or simply not used to making this choice, yet. However, we have the option to start forgiving, any day, any time, any instant, any moment, we choose. The option is Always Open.
What do we need to do to Forgive?
Trust that it is possible. You will hear me say, “I Can.” Another phrase I find very useful is, “It is Possible.” “It is Possible” lends you to an openhearted state of mind. If you have this tool; you are ready to move mountains. Big mountains.
How Do We Forgive Ourselves?
This is a great question, because we have a number of “selves.” I remember a story by Sandra Cisceneros, in which the protagonist was a young girl who spoke about feeling like she was every age she had ever been 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3… all at the same time. It’s a little like that when we try to forgive ourselves. What we are trying to forgive is a remembrance of a thing past, of someone we were or thought we were, and often judged ourself harshly for being.
For example, we might be trying to forgive that person we were, who was in the car accident in 1985. Man, if they had only not been thinking about work and been more focused, he or she wouldn’t have run that red light. But, we can never go back in time and change it. We can never go back and fix his or her mind to make them focus on what was right in front of them in that moment at that intersection.
However… right now, we can focus on the present moment. We do have the option to stop thinking about the past and, more importantly, to stop agonizing over it, spinning around that fragment of a self from the past. We can change what we are thinking now. That is the prelude to forgiveness.
Step Toward Forgiveness Now
Say: "I Am Here."
Connect to something solid. Touch a table. Sing a song. Look at a tree. Recognize that you are here.
Arrive here.
Once, you know you are here, ask Love/Christ/Jesus/Yeshua for help letting go of a burden. If you have habit or burden that comes to mind, ask to hand over anything you are ready to release in this instant, in favor of being more loving here, now, today.
Once, you know you are here, ask Love/Christ/Jesus/Yeshua for help letting go of a burden. If you have habit or burden that comes to mind, ask to hand over anything you are ready to release in this instant, in favor of being more loving here, now, today.
Stay here, on solid ground.
Breathe simply and know, because you do know that you want to go forward as Love in Love and that’s all that is really real.
That matters more than what you’d been holding on to and remembering.
The present, what you can do as Love, is more important than what you did then.
It is the most important thing.
This day, to-day is the story, the beginning, and the rest of your life. You are precious. You are Love. You can begin again new, today.
That is the gift of forgiveness.
It is the gift to start again anew.
Forgiveness holds the key to Love, to ever-lasting Love.
Ever-fresh, ever-new.
Forgiveness, real forgiveness is a baptism.
The steps you take to it are daily re-births of your Heart and mind in Truth.
Amen.
Love,
Atala
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