Forgiveness is a Master and, if we want it, we can be its pupils for the life. But it has in itself little significance of it as long as we do not bring back it to a personal dimension, through the events of the daily newspaper. It cannot really exert its power of cure that if it changes our manner of considering the life.
Each human being hides at the bottom of him a share of resentment, with the sometimes heavy feeling that this one retains our vital energy captive of the wrongs of the past. Whether we were victim or " torturer ", the forgiveness (that which one agrees to oneself or which one grants to the others) is the key which opens the gate of the interior prison. In other words, It is a business of personal responsibility which leads us to the mysterious capacity of cure of forgiveness. But how to start to really assume it?
Much among us reduces forgiveness to a specific fact.
Experiments of life, one period of suffering which remake surface can lead us to adopt an attitude having appearances of forgiveness. We seek to minimize the event, to assume an useless responsibility or to reduce the impact of a relation.
Whatever the way in which one expresses it, it is an attempt to identify a last suffering all while circumventing it. By thus driving back the painful experiments without seeking to know the major significance of it, one lets the resentment brood deeply in oneself, hidden well, until it brutally appears by various symptoms, including the physical and mental disease.
Often, it is by incomprehension that the victim carries the burden of the irresponsible behavior of others. It is seen thus condemned to remain as impotent as a child façe with his emotive life. It is not a question there of forgiveness, but of escape. The desire to escape the pain, though completely human and comprehensible, blocks the process of cure and prevents us from including/understanding in-depth the direction of forgiveness. If we have courage to go at the bottom of our problems, guided by somebody in whom we have confidence, we can light the obscure recesses little by little where the resentment is dissimulated. If we face our pain and know to listen to its voice, we will be able to hear the hidden messages, carrying the truths of which we must hold account in our life.
Throughout this step, we seize the often obscure relation between the resentment and the culpability, this black cloud which prevents us from expressing our gifts and our talents, that to pass through layer of fog.
But during this period, it is significant not to forget that the process of forgiveness requires time, patience and a will of change.
It is known that the experiment of forgiveness was lived when:
- After the failure of a relation, one is ready to consider the possibility of liking again;
- After maltreatbeing maltreated, one always believes that there are really good people in the world;
- After having lived a childhood marked by violence, one appreciates the aptitudes for survival and the creativity which one developed, not in spite, but well because of its situation;
- After having lost an employment, one realizes that it was the occasion there to implement its greater talents;
- After having to fail a project which really held us with heart, one is ready to still test, enriched by the major values that the human imperfection revealed us;
- After a serious disease, one learns how to listen to with compassion the messages which the body sends to us;
These some examples show that forgiveness, it is not the glance which one carries on the suffering of others or there his by thinking that it is acceptable. Obviously, the suffering is not acceptable. Better is worth to try to encircle the various faces of forgiveness.
Forgiveness, it is the angel with which we fight during a long black night, the angel that we refuse to release before it does not give us his blessing.
It is the daemon which we meet on the road, which requires us to it ransom of the resentment and revenge before raising the barriers which prevents us from progressing.
In fact the universal voice seeks without slackening to be made hear over the tumult of the political, ideological or racial battles. A voice which can be heard only in the peaceful territories of the heart.
It is a browsing which carries out us, through our major anguishes, until the achievement of a potential which we hardly suspect.
These is a choice which can transform our life, provided that one adheres to it by the heart and the spirit.
It is the relaxation of the tightened links by which we control our experiments of life.
Forgiveness embraces glance the human condition, and finds growths quite alive even in the most devastated gardens. It has the face of the members of our family, our colleagues, our neighbors, our dearest friends, our enemies mortals. It takes the wanted form, whatever she is, so that we withdraw the lesson from it.
Forgiveness, it is to raise it veil which transforms the tragedy into occasion to grow, the loss in gift, the crisis in reorientation and the failure in success.