I‘m sharing another odd one today… I’m grateful for forgiveness. Specifically the ability to grant forgiveness. I used to think that forgiving someone was equivalent to letting them off of the hook, or taking away someone else’s responsibility for their actions. Maybe I’m slow, but my understanding of forgiveness is newer to me - evolving over the past handful of years. In all honesty, I bet my grasp of it will KEEP evolving as I “grow up”. Learning that forgiving someone actually was a gift to myself has been freeing… I no longer needed to carry those piles of shit around with me! Load lightened! Releasing that negativity has made some new space internally that I fill with things like peace, love and (shockingly) gratitude! It’s helped me develop healthier boundaries and helped me to sever any unnecessary connections - or cords (for my metaphysical friends). Probably the hardest one I look at every day, is the forgiveness of myself. We tend to inwardly treat ourselves worse than we would treat ANYONE on the planet - let alone someone we love. I am learning to love myself, to forgive myself for not being “perfect”, and to appreciate who I am on any given day.
It’s not always easy - AT ALL - but it is a very important part of my intention to be a well-adjusted (ha!), “happy”, authentic human.
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