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Forgive and Forget

While walking down live’s highway, we endure many difficult situations in our lives which seem overbearing and impossible to contend with. We are frustrated to the point where we become spiteful and filled with hate, making it easier to blame our problems on others rather than where they belong, on ourselves.

Shifting the blame tends to relieve us of the guilty feeling, putting it where it is easier to justify and accept. This process causes us to loose contact with ourselves and forces us to live in a world that becomes most unbearable. At this point we lose the concept of reality and become filled with lies and falsehoods,never knowing where the lie end and the truth begins. We think it will become easier to survive in life, when in fact, it becomes even more difficult, because we hate ourselves for the way we are and the way we have become.

As time passes we tend to carry a grudge with us, only to find that if we took the time to examine our thoughts, we have forgotten the cause or the reasons for our anger. Then something strange happens, we find ourselves discovering that we miss the person or persons we have alienated ourselves from by that shifting of blame, finding it difficult to deal with ourselves and that the loneliness of losing a friend. As the situation becomes more difficult to cope with, we find ourselves looking for some sort of relief.

I came across a book that told of a man who was wrongfully accused of a crime and sentenced to death by people who were looking for someone to blame. In fact, the only crime he was guilty of was, being in the wrong place at the right time. What caught my attention was that, the situation was of a similar nature, a case of accusing someone else in order to relieve my own guilt.

As the man was being executed he uttered a few word that will stick in my mind forever, He looked toward the heavens and said, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.” I found this difficult to understand, how a Man accused of a crime he did not commit, sentenced to be executed, was willing to unconditionally forgive his ccusers. It was at that point I realized that there was an important message in his words that would change my life forever. The message was a plan simple to understand, we are to ” Forgive and Forget."

The Book was the Bible and the Man was Jesus, who was born to die for our sins. He forgave and forgot his accusers, so why shouldn't we?

Sleep well my Friend wherever you may be---YMIRon

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