It is an unbreakable mental law that you have to forgive others if you want to demonstrate over your difficulties and to make any real spiritual progress.
The vital importance of forgiveness may not be obvious at first sight, but you may be sure that it is not by chance that every great spiritual teacher from Jesus Christ downward has insisted so strongly upon it.
You must forgive injuries, not just in words, or as a matter of form, but in your heart—and that is the long and the short of it. You do this, not only for the other person’s sake, but for your own sake. Resentment, condemnation, anger, desire to see someone punished are things that rot your soul. Such things fasten your troubles to you with rivets. They fetter you to many other p roblems that actually have nothing whatever to do with the original grievances themselves.
Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing (1 Peter 3: 9).
Can we imagine being free of bitterness, resentment, anger and condemnation? What a joy our lives would be if we released such feelings and turned them over to God! Today, as Jesus did even on the cross, as part of our Easter sacrifice and as a gift to ourselves and others, let us grant forgiveness of all things for which we have suffered hurts and wrongs. Then we will no longer imprisoned by them. Then, just as Christ’s gift freed us from the grave, let our ongoing forgiveness of others guarantee our freedom from the hell of unforgiven wrongs.
In forgiveness,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
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