my morning facebook-browsing-ritual made me search up on “forgiveness and acceptance”. not that i was trying to poke my nose in people’s lives.. well, sort of, but i felt like replying to someone’s casual or not, comment that she shared, even though she’s a hi-bye friend whom i met in school. never gotten the chance to know her better.
i’ve gotten the quote from this link, and although im not a christian, i find that it makes sense, and it might be potentially therapeutic.
If I refuse to forgive, its a sin against myself.
” The roots of unforgiveness are pride, vainglory, arrogance, and conceit. If I refuse to forgive someone, it is my sin….. We refuse to forgive because we feel justified in our resentment and bitterness. To harbor bitterness is unadulterated pride and conceit, and we alienate ourselves from Christ. Resentment and bitterness are cancer in the soul, which will destroy us if we do not forgive and become reconciled. Such bitterness is often the root of addictions, which are simply attempts to anesthetize the pain of our own self-condemnation. We torment ourselves with the remembrance of wrongs and wallow in our self-pity, thinking ourselves the innocent victims.”
so, does that mean that by forgiving we are releasing ourselves from the torments that we have further created subsequent to .. the sins of others?
or is it fate that we have to accept and fmove on. peace will always be beyond our reach.
ohk, im confused.
