Forgiveness

Forgiveness is an act of heroism. It takes immense courage to forgive because, it is so much more than absolving ourselves or someone else of real or perceived harm. Forgiveness is, in the words of medical intuitive Caroline Myss,"The eye of the needle."

To truly forgive, we must first enter the dark. We must face those sides of ourselves that we have split off from, denied, or neglected. We must retrieve our spirit from the people, places, and circumstances it has unwittingly attached itself to. We must die to our identity as a wounded woman and release our story of what happened, who hurt us, and how we are flawed. Only then are we reborn in the light of our true nature.

This is why forgiveness is so hard. It's not that we don't want to forgive; it's that we can't bear the brilliance of who we become once we do. We also think that forgiveness means that we are saying what we perceive,   they did to us is ok. That isn’t what forgiveness is about at all.

-Rev Janeè Herring