VISION: A Center For Spiritual Living

Forgiveness does not condone bad behavior or make another`s actions okay, it puts us on a path to freedom by not being trapped in a story. The event is over. We cannot allow ourselves to remain in the past reliving it.
When we free ourselves from the past, we allow ourselves to stand in our authentic power. A unified field, which denies itself nothing.

We must resist the urge to seek revenge, or "make things RIGHT", when we go there, we are deep in effect, deep in our story. We are led from within to go higher, to act from the exalted state, our Higher Self; which knows only Wholeness, only Oneness.

We do not deny that people can behave in the most inhuman ways towards each other, and some of us have been injured, however, healing is our birthright, we can see ourselves as students of the situation, or victims. We are always at choice.

There is a spiritual inclination within towards peace, towards harmony. When we experience the gift of the infinite life, we are at One with the divine harmony that dwells within.
The outer most and in the inner most Universe are in alignment. There is One power. We grow in that power into that which we already are.

Forgiveness frees us from the past, lets us out of the story. It doesn`t condone bad behavior. It allows us to move beyond that moment, and not be blown by the winds of the moment.
Holding onto old thoughts of old hurts is like standing as Warden over the jail cell of a ghost- they`re gone! We`re the only ones still here.
We have tools to work our spiritual practice, to remind ourselves of our greater truth when our buttons get pushed. We don`t blame the person who pushed them, we ask when they got installed and what can we do to remove them.

Forgiveness is a way of life. If it is not unconditional, or it is not truly forgiveness.
Forgiveness does not mean it didn`t happen, it means we are free from the story, free from the past. The event is over, now we are just having thoughts about it.