FORGIVEN
The world we live in today is a catch 22 – look but don’t do. The people’s appetites are enticed day and night then people ridicule one another for falling in the traps. That does not make sense and isn’t fair. Who do you blame obesity on, when we live in the land of temptation that does not teach the science of Self Knowledge and Self Control in the most important part of our lives- in the school system.
Why do we condemn those express themselves freely in the arts and through music in a land that promotes freedom speech without discipline. And the leaders examples show us how to mud-sling and argue rather than reach rational conclusions – who is the blame?
With the current climate of thinking, confusion, method of communication, and behavior the average person has a 50- 50 chance of success and/or survival. We are doomed the minute we are born in this world – we are born into suffering.
I didn’t make this world and neither did you, we are all products of a society that does not understand the science of balance. That puts technology before humanity, greed before human need, and is spinning out of control because world leaders have selfish ambitions. The leadership is incapacitated by their differences and people are finger pointing at everyone but them selves.
Everyone avoids the Mirror because they are afraid of the Truth; Reality has a way of telling us we’re wrong .
This is understandable because many of us have been grandfathered into what we think we believe. Meaning we took on a Religion, belief system or ideology because our family believed it. “I’m a Baptist cause my family is Baptist”, “I’m a Supremist cause I was raised that way” , yet we do not check to see if this is the Ultimate Truth, if it has a connection to the grand scheme- Our beliefs are what limit or free us.
The point is we are led to believe things without questioning them and the result is – Division. *Everyone goes to extremes which breeds limitation and leads to disagreement and conflict.
However, if we look closer there is a light- the light is;
“The only thing between extremes is all possibilities”.(Brotha Rock) Possibilities for what? Possibilities of seeing that Human Beings have more in common than we have differences, we are only separated by our ideas, but our basic needs are the same. Life is relative to what we want to see, so the question is, what do we really want?
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”
(Matthew 7:7) If people seek common ground, they will find it. If people seek Unity, they will find it. If people seek agreement, they will find it. If you seek division, you will find it. If you seek disagreement, you will find it. What are we looking for?
People in general don’t know what they want, few know what their looking for. We don’t seem to be able to agree on what’s right or wrong, so where do we start?
Let’s start with our needs; we all have the same basic needs:
ü Our Physical needs are Life, food, shelter, water, air, and clothing.
ü Our Spiritual needs are Love, Truth, and Peace.
ü Our Mental needs are Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding.
But there is one more thing that we all need and deserve- Forgiveness.
It was said by a wise man:
“Man has two great spiritual needs. One is forgiveness. The other is goodness.”
(Billy Graham)
The world is so uncompassionate and unforgiving to the point we deny people all the above for our personal reasons, because we are to critical and opinionated.
We put sanctions on each other on all levels because someone doesn’t agree with us or we want to control them. People are infected with a mentality of punishment out of context. Of course there is a such thing as facing consequences for wrong doing, but a degree of pardon, and leniency or humanity can assist us from being unreasonable.
A lot of us are unreasonable with ourselves, we do not Forgive ourselves for our minor transgressions not to mention our major ones. I used to be that way until I faced my own frailty. Until I figured out I was flesh and blood. Then I looked around me and realized everyone else was to, then I looked in the Mirror, square in my eyes said “I forgive you”.
I realized if I couldn’t Forgive myself I couldn’t know how to forgive others. I salvaged my soul through Forgiveness to enable me to lighten up, to be tolerant, just, compassionate and understanding. So if I saw someone fall short I could say;
“ Father, Forgive them, for they do not know what they do”.
(Luke 23:34)
The World needs an attitude of Forgiveness to begin the healing process, to enter the Universal Mind, Heart and Soul of God; to learn His ideas.
A great scientist said, “I want to know the thoughts of God, the rest are details”.
(Einstein)
Here are the thoughts of God in the details:
“No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”(Jeremiah 31:34)
“We created not the heavens, the earth, and all between them, but for just ends. And the Hour is surely coming (when this will be manifest). So overlook (any human faults) with gracious forgiveness.” (Quran 15:85)
“Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven .”(Luke 6:37)
“Nonviolence, Truth, absence of anger, disengagement, peace, loyalty, compassion for creatures, lack of greed, gentleness, modesty, reliability; brilliance, patience, resolve, clarity, absence of envy and of pride; these characterize a *man born with Divine traits”.
(Gita 16th Teaching)
“To understand everything is to forgive everything”. (The Buddha)
“Let us look pass our differences and sacrifice our opinions for the Truth, and replace fear with reason and punishment with Forgiveness”. (Brotha Rock)
Excerpt from book “Tree of Life” by Rock M. Godchild © 2008
