Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Oct/Nov 2017 Aspire Mag Full Issue: Feminine Wisdo | Page 70
We have no CHOICE to go back and re-do
what happened.
However, we do have a CHOICE to release
our insistence that the past SHOULD have
been different. We can instead ACCEPT that
the past could not have been any different
than it actually was.
YOUR TWO CHOICES:
1 Hold onto your insistence/hope that the
past should have been different and
stay STUCK in that forever.
Forgiveness doesn’t happen BETWEEN
two people. Forgiveness only happens
within you!
The moment you decide to give up the
HOPE that the past could have been any
different than it actually was, you are FREE!
Many people get stuck by the FALSE belief
that to forgive, you need to go to the other
person and express “I forgive you”.
You can do that, but that is not forgiveness,
that is AMENDS.
2 Accept that the past could not be any Amends happens between two people.
Forgiveness only happens within YOU.
The power of FORGIVENESS is an
amazing thing! All you must do to experience forgiveness
and be free is to give up the hope that the
past could have been any different than it
actually was. Breathe. And be free.
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Forgiveness The Third Obstacle
to Forgiveness
different than it actually was and begin
to get unstuck.
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So, by now, if you are willing to give up
the hope that the past could have been
any different than it actually was, and you
recognize that forgiveness only happens
within yourself, you may be considering
embracing forgiveness in this moment…
BUT, where would be the JUSTICE in that?!
Which brings us to obstacle number
three. The false belief that holding onto
UNforgiveness creates JUSTICE.
Often times, once someone accepts the
fact that the past could not have been
different, the next obstacle to overcome is
the second misunderstanding about how
forgiveness happens.
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Unforgiveness doesn’t create justice… ever.
That’s just not how justice works. The Universe
delivers justice thro