If you had a parent like mine, then I think it's because the potential for further injury is gone. You don't have to be constantly on guard any longer. That energy can then go somewhere else, and you then have a choice: redirect it to constructive uses that build you up or keep directing it into anger at something that cannot change. If you value your life and your existence, you choose the former. As a consequence of that, forgiving is easier because the thing to be forgiven is no longer a drain, will no longer grow, and very likely will diminish.
I saw your reply a few weeks ago, but I was in Mexico City at the time and experienced limited functionality of this platform while traveling. I would have responded sooner otherwise. I wanted to ask: have you achieved the major milestones of the journey you had set out on when we first met via Blogger, years ago?
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Similar thing happened with me a couple years ago. When a parent dies, it seems to make forgiving them way easier.
If you had a parent like mine, then I think it's because the potential for further injury is gone. You don't have to be constantly on guard any longer. That energy can then go somewhere else, and you then have a choice: redirect it to constructive uses that build you up or keep directing it into anger at something that cannot change. If you value your life and your existence, you choose the former. As a consequence of that, forgiving is easier because the thing to be forgiven is no longer a drain, will no longer grow, and very likely will diminish.
I saw your reply a few weeks ago, but I was in Mexico City at the time and experienced limited functionality of this platform while traveling. I would have responded sooner otherwise. I wanted to ask: have you achieved the major milestones of the journey you had set out on when we first met via Blogger, years ago?
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