Pain and Forgiveness

The pain of the heart hurts the worst. To hold and harbor your anguish is destructive to your soul. Our Creator does not want this for us. The Creator wants each and every one of us to be with him. I say him, because I have no word for the divine essence that is our Creator.

I cannot truly say I have been in pain physically but a few times in my life, in fact I think I could count them on both hands. My physical pain has been some migraines, a few minor broken bones, stomach problems, childbirth and some major surgery. It has all been minor and yet I tend to forget that kink of pain. Yet, like most people what I remember most, is the pain that others inflict upon me with their negative comments, criticism, breaking of trust, name calling and the lack of respect of for me as another human.

The wounds to the heart are where we struggle to be free from the most as human beings. The hurt we feel when someone makes fun of us, telling us that we are ugly or less than perfect in their eyes is held onto like a battle scar that cannot be healed. The pain we feel from a break in our trust may be the worst we will ever feel. Once someone hurts our hearts we find it nearly impossible to forgive. We hang onto all the pain others dish out, believing and dwelling in it as if they were correct. We are letting them defeat us and break us down. They are putting out our light. There are some that struggle with this far more than others and some that we, with our small minds will call defeated.

But they are wrong! They only thing we are doing when accepting the hurtful words of others is drifting away from our true selves! We do not have to believe the hurtful judgmental things people say to or about us. We are all caring, loving people when we free ourselves from the pain and guilt that we allow others to put on us. Others only put their pain on us because they themselves feel it, they do not know how to deal with it and be free of their own pain.

Be free of the pain! Forgive those who have caused your soul pain. Forgive yourself for believing them! Know that you are a wonderful and beautiful person, that you are filled with the light and love of our great and wondrous Creator. You are filled with his love and brilliant light all you have to do is believe.