Sue Monk Kidd is my favorite author. She wrote a book called 'When the Heart Waits.' It was, of all the literature, the one book that really helped my mother when I was in the hospital and treatment. I now have that copy and it is filled with her notes and now mine. I refer to that book often as it quiets my soul and reminds me to be patient in the darkness and the times of personal change and transformation. I also love her book, 'The Dance of the Dissident Daughter.' Doesn't that just sound spicy? I recently read the following lines and found them perfect in light of my current fourth step work.
"You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do. To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forgiveness means releasing our rage and our need to retaliate, no longer dwelling on the offense, the offender, and the suffering, and rising to a higher love. It is an act of letting go so that we ourselves can go on...There is no healing without forgiveness, no forgiveness without love. Indeed, love is everything."
And Amen.
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I was meditating the morning on St. Francis' prayer. Kinda reminds of the quote you shared.
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.
Today in the car I listened to a podcast by Rob Bell on forgiveness that your quote reminded me of. I like that quote.
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