forgiveness
this school year started out with a major change: a new principal. he's a super cool guy. i can't even begin to explain how much he cares about this school. all i know is that it shows in everything he does.
so one of the roles as a principal is to write out the monthly newsletter. at our school, we have themes for each month to help us focus on our lives as good Chrstians. march's theme is forgiveness. here's a few little excerpts of what he wrote:
"Holding grudges, being angry and resentful, or storing up anger in our hearts can consume a person."
"We say, for example " Well, I'll forgive but I won't forget". What if God said that to us? We say: "I'll forgive, but I'll have nothing more to do with you". Fortunately for us, He does not. He forgives us because he loves us from his heart."
"... forgiveness is not an act. It is an attitude - an attitude that is born of the fact that we Christians, who have been forgiven a debt we could never pay, are to go out into the world, armed with the spirit of forgiveness. Wow. That's quite a mandate. But we can do it: one act of forgiveness at a time."
now how this relates to my life. well, i guess i'm guilty of doing the whole "forgive but don't forget" for some things that have happened... but it's not to say that i don't try to forget. at least i don't hate the person who did me wrong. i just hurt deeply. however in the end, forgiveness IS a very good thing.
on the other end of things, it TOTALLY SUCKS when you try to live your life being as forgiving as you're able to, and then you encounter someone who just doesn't live that way. and then you get hated on. the practical side of me tells me to just walk away and never deal with that person (or those kind of people) ever again. but it just doesn't feel right. i don't like living every day knowing that someone just hates me. my instinct is to try and fix it. to think any more about it might lead me to believe that forgiveness is futile... i don't think i have the stomach to accept that though.
my conclusion is this: we have to perpetuate the good first. only then will the good will manifest itself to us in its own way, in its own time. the time it takes is penance for people to realise their mistakes and recovery for people to heal. the haters will recognise, then come around. i'll just keep telling myself that.
so one of the roles as a principal is to write out the monthly newsletter. at our school, we have themes for each month to help us focus on our lives as good Chrstians. march's theme is forgiveness. here's a few little excerpts of what he wrote:
"Holding grudges, being angry and resentful, or storing up anger in our hearts can consume a person."
"We say, for example " Well, I'll forgive but I won't forget". What if God said that to us? We say: "I'll forgive, but I'll have nothing more to do with you". Fortunately for us, He does not. He forgives us because he loves us from his heart."
"... forgiveness is not an act. It is an attitude - an attitude that is born of the fact that we Christians, who have been forgiven a debt we could never pay, are to go out into the world, armed with the spirit of forgiveness. Wow. That's quite a mandate. But we can do it: one act of forgiveness at a time."
now how this relates to my life. well, i guess i'm guilty of doing the whole "forgive but don't forget" for some things that have happened... but it's not to say that i don't try to forget. at least i don't hate the person who did me wrong. i just hurt deeply. however in the end, forgiveness IS a very good thing.
on the other end of things, it TOTALLY SUCKS when you try to live your life being as forgiving as you're able to, and then you encounter someone who just doesn't live that way. and then you get hated on. the practical side of me tells me to just walk away and never deal with that person (or those kind of people) ever again. but it just doesn't feel right. i don't like living every day knowing that someone just hates me. my instinct is to try and fix it. to think any more about it might lead me to believe that forgiveness is futile... i don't think i have the stomach to accept that though.
my conclusion is this: we have to perpetuate the good first. only then will the good will manifest itself to us in its own way, in its own time. the time it takes is penance for people to realise their mistakes and recovery for people to heal. the haters will recognise, then come around. i'll just keep telling myself that.
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