Forgiveness Gives You Peace

Forgiveness is releasing your self from the bondage of pain. It could be pain from betrayal, it could be pain from heart break, it could be pain of any source. It takes your peace away and puts hatred and bitterness in you. I hate to be in such a bondage, that is why I forgive quickly.

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Depending on the gravity of pain, forgiveness may be more difficult for some and for some others, no matter the gravity, big or small, they hold it and never let go. They don't forgive and they never forget. They keep reminding themselves and telling themselves never to forgive.

I don't know if this is part of what helps me to forgive easily, that is the fact that once we become closer, I would have imagined the worse that you can do to hurt me. I usually tell myself to expect the worse from people. We are all humans and we tend to offend each other all the time.

One thing that makes it easy for me to forgive is that forgiveness is the command of God. His Word says "forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.* Before I can ask for God's forgiveness,I should have forgiven those that offended me. The word also says bear with each other and forgive one another...

I also used to think about the fact that we are all humans. Though some hurt may be done to one because of jealousy or hatred over nothing but it could also be unintentional. Some things just happens and what I think is just to let go.

I also used to consider the saying that Every disappointment is a blessing. When you have been hurt by a trusted person, you feel disappointed and heart broken but sometimes, it opens the door for a greater blessing and opportunity.

One time in school, something happened between I and my friend. We usually study together and some times, I score higher than him and other times we have same grade. He felt that I shouldn't score higher than him in the exam and he said some nasty things to me. He stopped studying with me and started hanging out with some other people. I was really sad and unhappy. I started studying on my own until I met real friends. Far better than him. We studied together and I even began to have higher grades than before.

My husband use to asked me why it's so easy for me to forgive. The truth is that I don't know. I told him that I've planned to forgive long before I'm offended. I can't even handle any bitterness in my heart.
I'm not perfect but bitterness is not something I want to journey with me. So, I let go.

You may feel I'm saying this because I've not been really hurt. But I've been hurt in so many ways that you can't imagine I can't state it here it's a whole book and I've forgiven over and over. I just want peace, and happiness.

This is my response to Hive Ghana community weekly prompt.
Thanks for stopping by, I really appreciate you.

Yours truly @aunty-tosin💕💕