Good Morning Garden

If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you (Matthew 6:14).

Setting others free means setting yourself free, because resentment is really a form of attachment. It is a cosmic truth that it takes two to make a prisoner; a prisoner and a jailer. There is no such thing as being a prisoner on one’s own account. Moreover, the jailer is as much a prisoner as his charge. When you hold resentment against anyone, you are bound to that person by a mental chain. You are tied by a cosmic tie to the thing that you hate. The one person perhaps in the whole world whom you most dislike is the very one to whom you are attaching yourself by a hook that is stronger than steel. Is this what you wish? Is this the condition in which you desire to go on living?

Remember, you belong to the thing with which you are linked in thought, and at some time or other, if that tie endures, the objects of your resentment will be drawn again into your life, perhaps to work further havoc. No one can afford such a thing; and so you must cut all such ties by a clear act of forgiveness. You must loose him and let him go. By forgiveness you set yourself free; you save your soul. And because the law of love works alike for one and all, you help to save his soul too.

There is another element to the act of forgiveness. One must also forgive one’s self. Most of our anger toward, and resentment of others finds its true source in our anger and resentment toward ourselves. Whatever one has done, whatever one has failed to do, whatever one is disappointed about in one’s self must be forgiven if we are to live by God’s law. All it takes is to admit the wrong and repent of it, ask God to forgive it and commit to change it. Then one will find the grace to offer that same forgiveness to others. God’s grace flows best through an unburdened soul.

Z gardener