Forgive Someone Who Did You Some Wrong!

After several years apart, Dorothy parker, a notable twentieth century American writer, reconciled with a remarried her second husband, Alan Campbell. 

At the reception following the wedding she remarked, “People haven’t spoken to each other for years are on speaking terms again today—including the bride and groom”.

You know the stories. Members of the same family haven’t spoken to one another for many years. Both sides refused to budge. No one will say, “I’m sorry”. So the estrangement goes on and on. Endlessly, perhaps. 

On and on. You may not involve in something exactly like this, but you may know someone who was a friend, but is no longer. A former friend now alienated from you and you from him or her. Hard feeling, a hurt that still festers after all this. He either or few has been willing to reconcile.

          Nourish your happiness. Take the first. Or if the other person has tried to reconcile but you have refused, now is the time. There is in your soul a wound that will not heal until you and your friend forgive each other and patch things up. Bury the hatchet. Neither or of you will live forever, and there is no time like the present to make a gift for each other of your friendship reborn.

          The eighteenth-century English poet William Blake wrote that “We are put on earth a little space, /those we may learn to bear the beams of love.”  With these words, Blake implied that sometime, at least love is not easy, may even be painful. 

This applies to times when forgiveness is called for forgiveness on your part for someone who wronged you, hurt you, or did something to you that, until now, you found unforgivable. Forgiveness is called for to nourish your soul, help your soul to regain a health it hasn’t known for so long.

          So long bitterness, so long hardness of heart. Bye—bye emptiness, hello fullness of heart and compassionate forgiveness. It is the better part, so let it be. Screw up your courage, set your hat right on your head and get in touch with the person who wronged you, hurt you or did something to you that you found unforgivable. Reach out. 

Can either of you even remember what the estrangement was about? No matter, the time for forgiveness and reconciliation is now because now is the only time you have.

          Forgive and by forgiveness you will learn to be a little more a beams of love, the love that nourishes your happiness above all things. No matter what the matter may be, seek to forgive and seek reconciliation. There is no hurt, no wrong that cannot be forgiven. Nourish your happiness.