The art of forgiveness begins when you forgive someone.
Forgiveness works the miracle of change. When you forgive, you change others and you change yourself. You change discord to harmony.
You should first forgive yourself for the wrongs you’ve done to yourself and others, for the mistakes you’ve made. Then you should forgive and bless all those who have wronged you during your lifetime. Thus you release others and you release yourself. You break the chains of regret and remorse that bind you. You free your mind from the burdens of the past so you may walk victoriously into the future.
Forgiveness should become a habit. He who forgives to infinity will never hate.
Forgiveness should start now. Putting off forgiving only deepens the wound. Clinging to bitterness postpones happiness. Life is short, time is fleeing. Today is the day to forgive.
Forgiveness is the way to personal peace. It is performing mental surgery in yourself, probing deep within to remove hurts , grudges and resentments. It is forgetting wrongs as though they had never been. It is discovering a serenity you’ve never known before.
Written by (Wilfred Peterson) in 1960.
