Light against Dark or Good against Evil
I have had several requests asking me to explain my thoughts and beliefs on forgiveness so here goes.
I believe that good and evil are present in all of us, or if you will light and dark. They are on different levels but they are present. We are the same as our creator or the same as the universe around us there is good and bad or if you will, light and dark in everything. This is the balance of all life. To be whole you cannot fight the darkness, or the bad, you need to merge with it. If you allow them to be as one there is no battle there is your light and your dark or love and fear merging and love will always conquer fear. This merging of love and fear is the understanding that is missing and it is the only way to come to forgiveness. There are only two emotions in life that all other emotions come from and they are love and fear. When you chose to do something bad or evil it comes from fear. Hate comes from fear, revenge comes from fear and so on. Love can only bring good and love will always conquer fear, if you understand that even you have a bad side and you allow yourself to embrace it instead of believing that it is a battle between good and evil you will find the forgiveness you are looking for. This is what will heal our world from abuse, understanding comes from love. I do not mean excusing an action from a persons bad choice. You do not have to excuse an action to forgive the person it is simply an undestanding. You seperate the person from the action. Not an easy task but through the act of forgiveness the action goes back to the person who brought it forth and is taken away from the abused. We all make bad choices in life some are horrific, we need to understand that man, all of us are capable of being evil and when you allow it to be what it is, it is the love that wins and it always will.
So to reafirm my beliefs on forgiveness, forgiveness is never about your abuser it is about you. The act of forgiveness is the act of understanding not the act of approving, just understanding. Forgiveness will give the pain back to the person that caused the pain. If our abusers had to carry the pain that they caused us would they do it again?
