Hello Dear One,
I posted this on Facebook some time ago and was led to re-visit it today:
Friday Forgiveness Tip: The big violations attached to events in our world – you know, those things we hardly know the truth about but are as real as the sunrise – they need to be released as well. Especially if you want to help right the wrongs. Can’t fight from anger, way too impotent. Forgive to fight. ♥~
What does this really mean?
I’m sure we’re all aware (whether acutely or barely) of things we know little about. We know little to nothing about what is really happening behind closed doors – the motivations behind the wars around the globe, the involvement of sinister yet condoned forces in our daily lives, the control of market forces by those in greed and power, the murdering of innocent – well, even the murdering of the guilty would be an issue – far away and right on our door steps, the reasons for the lack of any investigative reporting in hunt for the truth….so much about our world is unknown to us. Yet, if we care to look and listen, the evidence stares us in the face.
Now for those of us who become involved in these fights by getting informed and taking action, it would be very easy to become bitter, cynical, even belligerently angry. I can see how that can develop. When the powers that be are blatant in the tightening of the proverbial rope around our necks, leaving us with a sense of enraged impotence, one can get a sense of rage in the spirit.
But that has to be resisted. There is no potency in rage. It’s uncontrolled, it’s self-centered and it is surely lacking in self-discipline. Where does it get us…it actually works in favor of the forces we condemn and are trying to fight. A bunch of enraged and dispersed people will end up burnt out or killed.
So here’s the potent response to the outrageous behaviors, decisions and policies being practiced: Forgive to Fight.
If we’re going to be helpful and effective as we fight we need clarity; we need focus and potency; we need to exercise self-control. We need to respond in large numbers too…and to get there, to get to a place of one accord (at least in terms of specific responses) we need to individually get our acts together.
We do that by staying away from the rage place; forgiving the culprits every single day is needed.
What’s that really mean? It means choosing to clear your heart of thoughts of revenge, malice and ill will towards those who have and are wronging societies around the globe. That will weigh you down and eventually lead to some version of impotence; rage or numb indifference.
Clear your mind, lighten your heart and take the non-violent route – in thoughts and in deeds. No revenge, no rage, no malice; just a focused and clear intention to make things right: To bring wrong doers to light, to purge our society of the cancerous, evil and parasitical elements. [Of course complete purge will most likely never occur as we will probably always be humans. Hopefully!]
We need focus and clarity to serve the world; whether it’s with right information or with various acts of service. Doing any of the heavy work of service requires that you be at your highest and best self; your lightest and freest state of being.
If we’re burdened with rage, we’re compromising our ability to focus on the mighty task at hand.
Forgive to fight. Stay light to be right.
So how should we think and feel about the wrong and the wrong-doers? We certainly can think of them as what they are…no harm in keeping it real. We should also think of these things happening as things we can stop…we need to own our power and not shrink away in intimidation. No matter how ominous the enemy, with right thinking and right actions truth and justice can and will prevail. The moment we begin to give up, with the thought that “this is too big for me to handle” the seed of impotence has been dropped and will take root if we nurture it. We nurture impotence with thoughts of revenge, rage and ill- will.
We want to be potent. What’s potent? Thoughts and actions that come from love…love of people, of justice, of truth, of mercy, of humility, of self-discipline, of potency and of grace.
Forgive to fight. Stay light to be right.
Wishing you an abundance of humble potency,
~♥~
