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Forgiveness
Forgiveness of others who have hurt you in some way, can only be given fully if you have empathy and understanding.
The hurt can be direct or indirect, as in when someone hurts someone you care about or love. When the hurt is indirect you feel the hurt of the one that was hurt, through your empathy. The greater your empathy, the greater the hurt you feel.
Your first reaction is not being able to understand, as in ‘how could they do that?’ or ‘why?’ Your second reaction is anger, which may be followed by the need for revenge.
Anger arises because of the hurt you feel, hurt that is unjust, it is an attack. The anger is the need to return the hurt to redress the balance (an eye for an eye) and to prevent it happening again, (defence against future attacks). When anger is acted upon, it becomes revenge.
If you have been hurt by someone you have three choices:
1. Take revenge, but doesn’t that make you as bad as them? To get revenge you have to cause as much hurt as that which was done to you. Causing hurt is not the way of a loving soul, so if you have empathy you will be denying it and will cause harm to your soul. Revenge is an animal instinct.
2. Do not take revenge or look for understanding, in which case you will carry the anger as a burden which will take away your peace and cause you hurt.
3. Forgive the one who hurt you, look for the understanding of what brought them to that point in their life, where they believed that they had to cause hurt. What knowledge and understanding did they have at that point? It obviously wasn’t perfect, but if you cannot forgive them, then how perfect is your knowledge and understanding?
The one who caused the hurt may have no feelings for other people at all, in which case they are already suffering a great loss, greater than anything that can be taken from them in revenge. Ask yourself; is it good and right that you hurt those who are more lost in the world than you?
Now the one who caused the hurt may realise the hurt they caused, and be hurting for the wrong they have done, in which case they are paying for the hurt they caused, and your forgiveness will end all conflict and hurt, how loving are you?
Fear not the one who can harm your body, but rather fear the one who can harm your soul. Forgiveness is the protector of your soul.
Hate destroys love, and love destroys hate; do note hate your enemy.
Judgement
Judgement has the power to heal or to cause great distress and harm to a soul. It has the power to free or enslave, it has been used for both good and evil. A person will always judge another by their own standards that is to say, by what they would have done, or what they believe is right.
The first considerations given to judgement must always be the motives for which it is given and whether it was based on love or hate, for wherever judgement is made, that which is judged will always act as a mirror, reflecting back that judgement on the one judging.
Judgement is always made from the heart and if that heart is not perfect in all that is good and right, then the judgement is imperfect. Love is the basis of all that is good and right, not just for the self, but for everyone. If judgement is not based on love, it will not be based on understanding, forgiveness, compassion and unselfishness, and it will harm the souls of all concerned.
Love is the only authority by which judgement is right. If a person wrongs you, then you must ask yourself, is that person’s redemption in your punishment and what are you teaching them, love or hate? Where is the love in causing further damage to another soul?
How can you ever find inner peace if you carry hate and the memories of what you have done in its name?
When this life’s journey is over, and you return to the spirit realm, the only judgement that will be given by God, is whether you are perfected enough to go home, or whether you have not yet reached perfection and need to return to the world. The only punishment that one receives is self given, through self judgement, for it is the place where truth is known, and forgiveness heals.
I have seen the power of the soul. It is incapable of being hurt by that which is outside of it, except by its own will. It is the soul that chooses what to believe in, and what it will accept or reject. It is we alone who judge ourselves and through lack of, or the wrong knowledge, we punish ourselves and we blame others for it and seek revenge in our blindness.
When we judge through love that is not perfected, we punish ourselves with repentance, but when we become perfected in love, we have nothing left to judge, and when we see others still on their journey, we realise that there we once travelled, in our forgetfulness and blindness we see those who are our family, those who are still learning.
Were you not told, ‘love your enemy’ ‘turn the other cheek’ and ‘forgive one another’?
The imperfect judge will always serve injustice.
You cannot harm without be harmed.
What good then is your judgement of the self and others, if not from a perfected soul?
