Forgiveness and Second Chances
Hmm.
Just some thoughts of mine.
I've been given many second chances in life thus far I guess. I'm sure everyone has a fair share of a collection of mistakes and forgivenesses.
Well, it's true that sometimes the hurt will never go away totally, but perhaps many times we also hold on to it and never let it go. Is it perhaps because that makes us feel significant where we have been treated otherwise? That I still have a role to play in the whole situation when we have felt helpless.
Forgiveness has never, and will never be something that can be demanded. Especially not if there was never true remorse. Yet, remorse does not qualify us for forgiveness.
Forgiveness is given at the complete discretion of the forgiver; he has total 'sovereignty' whether to dispense this grace or not. The hurt will always have a right to say 'no' to a request for grace from the hurter.
Yet, I've found out from my own experience, it's a pretty difficult life to lead if there's someone in my past whom I've not forgiven. I spent two years in that crazy state, and I could never find peace within myself.
Hmm.. the paradoxes of life.. the innate capacities of us humans.. doesn't it scare you what we can do when love is lost?
Just some thoughts of mine.
I've been given many second chances in life thus far I guess. I'm sure everyone has a fair share of a collection of mistakes and forgivenesses.
Well, it's true that sometimes the hurt will never go away totally, but perhaps many times we also hold on to it and never let it go. Is it perhaps because that makes us feel significant where we have been treated otherwise? That I still have a role to play in the whole situation when we have felt helpless.
Forgiveness has never, and will never be something that can be demanded. Especially not if there was never true remorse. Yet, remorse does not qualify us for forgiveness.
Forgiveness is given at the complete discretion of the forgiver; he has total 'sovereignty' whether to dispense this grace or not. The hurt will always have a right to say 'no' to a request for grace from the hurter.
Yet, I've found out from my own experience, it's a pretty difficult life to lead if there's someone in my past whom I've not forgiven. I spent two years in that crazy state, and I could never find peace within myself.
Hmm.. the paradoxes of life.. the innate capacities of us humans.. doesn't it scare you what we can do when love is lost?
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