Hello!
I know everyone says forgiveness is about helping your self, healing your self and freeing your self. That basically, by forgiving you give your self the gift of freedom – from past hurts, painful memories and even abusive people.
But I’d like you to consider this OTHER reason to forgive. Here is the reason to forgive that is ‘other-centered’- that’s about helping other people.
When you heal your hurts and pains and get over the dramas of childhood, failed relationships, betrayals – on the personal or professional front and essentially clear the way for truly living at your highest and best, you create space for reaching out and truly helping others. Forgiveness is ultimately about helping and healing the world.
We can’t really connect to other people if we are not whole and healed. We will not have the emotional maturity that true service and helping is based on if our pains still have us drained, preoccupied and shackled.
We need to forgive, release and let go of our baggage in order to be productive and creative about serving others. So if being a person connected to the world in a way that is helpful and meaningful is important to you, get a hold of what the baggage is and get busy with healing and releasing.
Your legacy of service depends on it!
You’ll even find that helping will move the healing along. You don’t have to completely heal before you can help…my word, who would we have helping if that was the case!
What is essential is that we become aware of our baggage, create a path to healing and stay on it as we remain connected to the needs of the world and serving others at our highest and best. We have to do the best we can with where we are and simultaneously be conscious of where we are headed with our healing/maturing process and also, what’s needed to get us there.
It comes down to intentions and keeping our hearts purely motivated. Often without even realizing it, people do acts of kindness to fill a hole or a need to feel better about themselves. Instead, let’s be kind because it’s the right thing to do and because our heart is healed and is so filled with love – mature love, that it overflows onto the people we are serving or the cause we are fighting.
Heal to help at you highest and best! It all starts with forgiving – your self and others.
Wishing you an abundance of peace, love and light,
