The Law of Forgiveness
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 Jess 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 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 problems 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).
Now this is a really tough one, but there is no way around this law if we are to live in the Eden God created for us. And, hard as it is, the rewards are exponentially greater than the cost. When we forgive, we free ourselves of the offense, our reaction to it and the negative fallout that results from it.
Today, we can begin a life of forgiveness. We can lay down all the hurts, the injustices and unfairness of life. We can trade in the hurt, anger and resentment for healing, peace and reconciliation.
Brothers and sisters, let us drop our backpacks weighed down with the baggage of unforgiving, so we can run freely in the light; instead of trudging wearily in the dark.
Running freely,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
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