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Freeing up our flow with Forgiveness
by Rockets C. Redglare
Love is the key to health, happiness and freedom! As our ability to give and receive
love grows, one of the best skills we can develop is to let go of our judgments of
what other people's paths should look like. And let go of what we perceive to be
wrong with the picture as we view the world, day-by-day. This requires awareness
and forgiveness.
In practicing forgiveness, we liberate ourselves and begin to see life's wonder and
perfection unfold in new light. We begin to see the bigger picture as we grow into
our greater selves. We are perfection in becoming. Energies on earth are playing
out in the dance of life and everything is in perfect order. The kingdom of love,
peace, power and wisdom is continually coming, as it was intended from the foundation
of the world. There's no stopping it!
I experienced a lesson in forgiveness that I often refer to in my life. One day I
was outside sunning in the nude. I decided to turn over from my stomach onto my back.
As I did I sat on a hornet which stung me fiercely. I reacted in vengeance. I cursed
and bludgeoned it to death in rage. How dare it be there and do that to me! I've
been stung by hornets a few times, but never before experienced such swelling and
pain. Days later, I asked my daughter to inspect it because it still hurt to sit
down.
About a week after this incident, I was sitting in my backyard in meditation. Suddenly,
a hornet flew up and stung my right hand. This time I was so deep in my center, in
love, peace and connection with Spirit, that I had no negative reaction. I loved
it. I naturally forgave it. I blessed it. And I never could find a trace of that
sting on my hand. It was like it never happened!
Two hornets were my teachers that week. I was reminded that where our attention and
energy go, our power flows! If we react negatively, engage in anger, rage or hatred,
or deny our greater selves and indulge in feeling like we are a victim, we get ourselves
hooked into creating and experiencing negative effects.
Sometimes forgiveness takes time. When we can forgive our parents for not being "perfect"
human beings, the door of healing opens. Then we can see that our family members
are our greatest teachers in helping us find the truth of who we are. They reflect
to us dynamics of our own beings, some conscious, some not. We can see the bigger
picture.
I have a dear friend who I hadn't seen for many years. Suddenly she began popping
into my mind. Then she called from Chicago. She was in trouble. She asked for a bus
ticket to Minneapolis and a place to stay. I sent her the ticket and picked her up
at the station. She had changed a lot, and she was not well. She had been taking
drugs and living self-destructively. She stayed with me for about a month. Then one
day I came home and she was gone. She had stolen my favorite clothes from my closet.
What a shock! I couldn't understand how she could do that to me.
I tried to forgive her for a year, but I couldn't. It had taken me years to collect
those clothes, they were rare and uniquely styled. I shopped to replace them, but
I couldn't find anything I liked. In America of many stores, there were no clothes
for me!
I asked Spirit to show me my part in it. I knew that I wouldn't have had the experience
if I didn't have a part in it. I felt the pain of it every time I went in my closet.
So I decided to clean my closet. It took an entire day. I had stuff all over the
living room as I culled, organized and rearranged. Then I began to have a realization.
I remembered that my friend who stole my clothes was adopted. I also remembered that
I had given up a daughter for adoption in my youth. I realized that I had put my
feelings for my lost daughter in the closet of my subconscious and shut the door.
I read books on adoption, and learned that some adoptees steal from the people they
love the most, trying to fill their need for love, or because they feel like they
were stolen. Then I understood why my friend had taken my clothes, and I forgave
her with all my heart.
Suddenly I discovered consignment shops that had clothes I loved for cheap! Within
one month, I had more clothes than I had before the theft, ones that fit my body
and my being! How forgiveness opens our flow!
I found my daughter I had given up for adoption and we began the healing process.
I'm also reconnected with my friend who's learning self-love, and I feel deep satisfaction
when she tells me that I'm the only one in her life who loved her unconditionally,
no matter what she did. What a gift she gave me! What a blessing it turned out to
be.
We can feel when we're due to forgive our friends, lovers, families, neighbors, co-workers.
The hurts add up and begin to weigh us down. It's important to honor that feeling,
when we're being drawn out of our center, out of harmony with life. To sit down and
review each incident. Release our pictures and judgments. Affirm the perfection of
the bigger picture, that all things work together for good. Affirm the perfection
of that person's path and process in their own time. In so doing, we free ourselves
and restore our flow of ease, abundance, freedom, peace and blessings. It works!
Rockets C. Redglare, of Coniunctio, offers spiritual healing ministry, transformational
bodywork and astrological consultations. Her 18-year ministry utilizes Huna Kane
bodywork, laying-on of hands, Amadeus healing, reflexology and aromatherapy. She
is a 35-year yoga practitioner (hatha, pranayama, japa and bhakti), and 30-year astrology
student. Rockets can be reached at Rockets@usjet.net or call (612) 879-8077.
Copyright (c) 2002 Rockets C. Redglare
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