FORGIVENESS

I had a disappointing day yesterday. At least it was disappointing yesterday. Today, it was just another learning experience. There are no bad experiences, just experiences. We shouldn't take them too seriously We have them, we learn and they fade into the past.

Some people have tiffs, some ados, some settos. Jamie and I seem to have all out rampaging fights. Perhaps, I am exaggerating, somewhat. On the surface they don't don't have much content. We are both sensitive to blame and get our feelings hurt, when we think the other, is not sufficiently sensitive to our feelings. Every time it happens I am determined it won't happen again. It does. And it always takes me by surprise.

Jamie observed, "We are all just babies." An interesting way to look at it. In this relative world, this illusion made with fear, we never quite grow up. It is rare to obtain true maturity, none of our forebears did; our parents, as sweet as they may have been, didn't. We are all capable of being childish. Some folks have learned to hide it behind various facades.

In a way it is comforting to think of everybody as a baby. Forgiveness comes easy for babies and forgiveness is what we need more than anything right now. We especially need to forgive ourselves for all our babyish lapses. There is much love in the world right now. There is, also, much stress. In our attempts to grow out of our babyhood, all our unresolved issues come to the surface, they need to be dealt with.

We do want to grow up. We can see that paradise awaits us. Are we ready? Do we think we are deserving? Are we capable of unconditional love? I can answer all those questions for everybody and the answer is a big, YES. But each one of us needs to accept that truth; on the way to learning it, some babyish behavior will manifest. That is okay. We are in a hurry to learn. We don't want to be held back.

Because of the polarity, we can be creating heaven around us, one moment, and be peering into hell the next. It is very disconcerting. This time won't last. The dark, as an energy source, is fading fast. It will become easier and easier to focus on the light. The more we focus on the light, the less often we will respond to the negativity we may perceive in others.

The negativity [babyishness] we see in others is directly related to the regard we have for ourselves. The more we love ourselves the less we respond to the childishness in others. Forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness. We need to learn forgiveness as our first response to the baby in ourselves and each other.

When we are truly forgiving of ourselves and we are truly kind to ourselves; then it will be easy to love our neighbor as ourselves. Of course we do, we always love our neighbor as ourselves. That is why it is imperative to forgive and love ourselves.

Love and Peace,  Gregg