Forgiveness Part Two : The Breaker of Chains

I have previously written about forgiveness being an important part of healing, and why people who have hurt often reject the notion of forgiveness because they feel the other person doesn’t deserve forgiveness. In my previous post I explained why forgiveness is not for the offender, it is for the injured party. In today’s post I would like to address or speak about the other reason that people reject forgiveness is because they see it as weakness.

I would say to the people who feel this way, I understand why you feel it’s weak to forgive the other person because you think your forgiving them, freeing them from their guilt and responsibility for their actions as one last act of self-sacrifice in a long line of sacrifices like what happened in the past. And if that was all there was to forgiveness you would be right. But that isn’t all that’s going on here.

You see when you have been hurt by someone, you naturally have feelings of fear, anger, resentment and a desire to seek retribution. Those feelings feel like justice, but if you think about it, they aren’t justice because any pain or suffering you inflict on them doesn’t remove what they did to you. While they definitely should be punished by paying restitution or serving time in jail for what they did... they don’t deserve your constant attention and they don’t deserve to live in your heart and your mind forever. But unfortunately, that’s exactly what those emotions of fear, anger, remorse and hatred allow them to do. Those emotions allow the person who hurt you, to live in your heart and mind for the rest of your life.

So you need to look at those emotions as Chains that bind you to them. They are chains which are anchored in your mind and in your heart. They are chains that deserve to be broken, so you can be free of this person. Forgiveness is like the breaker of these chains that bind you. Forgiveness allows you to cut the chains, and forces the memories of the pain, the suffering and the emotions of fear, anger and remorse to leave your mind. Kick them out!

It is not easy to do. If it was everyone would do it. It takes strength. But I think you can do it, and I think your worth it. Summon your courage and your strength, pick up your bolt cutters and sever the chains, kick them out of your heart and mind!

Now free the feelings of freedom. A new lighter you, no longer weighed down by those chains and those emotions. Your now ready to move on to the next phase of your life. You are free because you had the strength to free yourself. Forgiveness. The weak can’t wield it, only the strong.

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