Power of Forgiveness
Going through a very delicate and intense personal situation, I was thinking about how powerful the spirit of forgiveness can be. We can have an intense situation brewing, emotions getting all over our mind and thoughts and only negativity is covering sky of our mind. This negativity is a lethal force which can destroy relationships, break apart homes and families or even create bloodshed. Is it worth it to keep that kind of lethal force in our minds and thoughts?
Thinking of forgiveness a recent unfortunate event at a school in an Amish community comes to mind. I deeply admire and salute the spaciousness in the hearts and minds of the Amish community who not only were able to handle this great tragedy in their community with a grace and compassion, which is the characteristic of people with strong faith, they astonished everybody by openly forgiving the brutal killer and not only that they reached out to his family and opened a welfare fund for taking care of his kids. Whenever I think of this incident, it just makes my faith even stronger and I feel God, The Most Compassionate and The Most Merciful, must be smiling at this great and heroic act of compassion, love and forgiveness.
I was trying to come up with an analogy for the act of forgiveness which could make some sense to tech savvy people like me and I came up with this. When we are going through an intense situation with a person, it off course is result of some wrongs we or the other person must have committed and its negative effect is so powerful that it occupies a fair share of mind and decapitates our ability to think normally. It is similar to what happens if a malicious programs takes over our computer and takes up processing power as well as memory and makes it very difficult if not impossible for the “normal” and “useful” programs to operate. In a situation like this, our resort it to either turn off the PC or press its reset button, it clears up the memory and the processing power of the PC from the harmful effects of that malicious program and makes it fully available for the “normal” and “useful” programs to function as usual. Forgiveness has the same kind of impact on our thought process.
When we forgive someone or seek forgiveness from someone we are seeking end to the vicious cycles of thoughts which were taking up all the precious capabilities of our brains. Forgiveness is the reset button which marks a new and refreshing beginning with all the brightness which comes with a beautiful new morning.
So folks whoever is reading this, are you going through a difficult personal situation with a family member, a friend or a romantic partner? Go ahead press the reset button of forgiveness. If you have done something to cause them a hurt, seek forgiveness, if some hurt has been done to you and you see that the person who did that is remorseful and sincerely want to apologise and make things better, reach out to that person and just gracefully forgive them. You will see how you will feel rejuvinated and refreshed, a big load would be lifted from your heart and mind.
Just try it, it always works!!