The Power of Forgiveness..........

It's the time of the year when everyone looks forward to the new year, a time for thanking those whom we appreciate and forgive those deemed have done us wrong. At the same time, it is also a period of reflection and repenting for sins against others and most importantly to ourselves.

What is forgiveness? Some say one must forgive and forget. What is the point of forgiving when everything has been forgotten. The significance of forgiveness is that perceptions change but memories remain. Resolution is probably the best form of forgiveness. Wounds may eventually heal but the scars remain. Perhaps these scars are there as a reminder for us to learn the lessons that needs to be learnt and never make the same mistake again. The greatest mistake in life is not learning from the same mistake.

How can one learn to forgive others when you have not learnt how to forgive yourself? People end up punishing themselves in many different ways like shopping as if there is no tomorrow, sinking into the dungeons of alcohol, succumbing to the whiff of the cigarette smoke. These are means and ways in which Man fortify their weakness and cracks day after day, hour after hour.
Until and unless we learn to surrender ourselves and face the truth, that is when we eventually learn how to forgive ourselves, forgive ourselves for our weaknesses of lust, greed, envy, gluttony etc, of past misdeeds to others or ourselves.

Forgiveness will come with time. When the time is RIGHT, the gates will open.