Episode 7: The Way of Letting Go and Forgiveness is to March Forth

Today is the day to march forth into something that is beautiful whether it's something that you need to change or a new beginning for you in some way. In order to heal the mindset, we have to learn to giving grace and offering forgiveness. You know, It's extremely difficult to forgive and let go because a lot of times we feel we didn't do anything to deserve it. We carry it onto ourselves like a baggage, and we expect that person to apologize, or we couldn't move forward or find some sort of closure.

How do we get closure on things?

We have to understanding forgiveness. It takes so much energy to carry bitterness and hate around. It will wipe you out. It will mentally weigh you down.

Giving forgiveness is not so much for other person as it is for me. It's not saying that I am agreeing of what you did to me. I'll release you from what you did to me. It is saying that I love myself enough to know that I didn't deserve it, so I'm going to forgive you, to move on and realize that I may never get the closure that I think I had deserved, but I know in my mind I don't deserve to carry that hate around, and I don't deserve to carry that bitterness around anymore. There are people in this life that’s really hard to love, and there are times that people do wrong to others, and we would just assume not have them in our lives. There are people who had done some really really really bad things to us and we kind of put them in that enemy category.

I was listening to a pastor this weekend and as a woman of faith, I am commanded to love my enemy. Sometimes, it's hard to understand how to love somebody that you don't consider lovable. As the pastor explained, command to love our enemy doesn't mean you go up, and hug them, and forgive them and bring them into our home and feed them dinner, and treat them like royalty. It means to love our enemy is to let go without the need for retaliation or revenge and give it to a higher court.

Basically, I’m saying that I'm just going to let you go. I will forgive you for what you have done. I have peace in my heart, and I can move on without the need to feel hate. I have to set boundary to cut the toxic people in my life by saying I love you. I let you go. I don't seek ill-will for you. I didn't need revenge, and I didn't need retaliation. I had found peace in my heart and in my mind. I've been able to get up each day and not have to carry that burden around. So, I encourage to today to unpoison your mind and your life by letting go and forgive everyone in your life who'd done you wrong.

I hope you’ll have a fantastic week. I hope you find some little nuggets in this podcast today that will help you to march forth.

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