Forgiveness is Freedom

Forgiveness is freedom.

I am safe, and so can forgive.

I am loved, and so can forgive.

I can ask Something Holy to hold what I cannot forgive yet, 

so that I might be unburdened at least of my grievance.

Grievance keeps me bound to fear and to that which I hold grievance against.

When I believe my grievance is real, I am in prison.

I forgive my intimates.

I forgive humanity.

I forgive this situation.

I forgive myself. 

First and foremost I forgive myself. 

In truth, though I have made mistakes,

when I learn the lessons of my error, I am free from them, 

for my actions were based on illusions I held, in which I longer believe.

I am Safe, and so can forgive. 

I am Loved, and so can forgive.

If I think I am attacked, if I see danger in every unknown

I am fighting shadows.

If I am offended, I do not understand anything beyond the surface of my own small world.

I am fighting illusions.

I am not attacked. 

I do not need to defend myself from illusion.

I am not my body. I have a body. It is my vehicle. 

I can never be hurt.

My body is not designed to hold grievance.

My body thrives when I forgive.

When I forgive my sister, my brother, and the world, 

fully and completely — forgiveness appears in me.

in giving forgiveness, I receive forgiveness, and am healed.

How does it feel to receive the forgiveness of another? 

True, full-bodied, open-hearted, nothing-held-back forgiveness?

It is heaven.

I can give heaven to another,

and so we rise together.

I am Safe and I will Forgive.

I am Loved and I will Forgive.

I love myself.

I forgive all things.

I am free.