Reasons to Learn Forgiveness
by Mary Hayes Grieco

There are many reasons to take the time to learn and live
the ways of Unconditional Love and Forgiveness.
Here are some of them:

Life is difficult, and pain visits all of us on a semi-regular basis. When we’re little, we fall off our bicycles and scrape our knees, or lose our favorite toy, and we howl with anguish that is barely addressed by the comforting things people say. As we grow we soon find out how cruel other children can be, and we struggle for respect of our individuality in our families. We see catastrophe and injustice on the news of the outside world, and we encounter the human shadow in certain personal incidents that harm our sense of safety, confidence, and our very self-worth. Even if you are blessed with thoughtful parents and a fairly easy childhood, it isn’t long into young adulthood before you meet people who hurt you or situations that deeply disappoint you: the unappreciative boss, the magnetic lover with an addiction problem, the friend who changed and turned away from you and won’t come back. That’s just the way it is. Life isn’t fair, I never promised you a rose garden, shit happens. It’s all true. We are taught to read and write, we are taught to wear clean clothes and to floss our teeth, and we are clearly shown how to drive a car. Most of us were not taught how to handle our emotions and losses in a healthy and whole way. We were taught that we should forgive, but no one ever sent us to a class that taught us a practical way to do it. But forgiveness is in fact an important life skill that can now be taught with the same kind of clarity which we’d expect in a driver’s education class. I wish it was part of our high school curriculum, right next to health classes that include sex education and drug addiction prevention, because the need to heal emotional issues is a universal human health issue. But it’s not too late for anyone to learn a new skill, and if this is the right time for you to learn how to forgive and to live the way of unconditional love, I hope to see you soon at one of our events. If you’d like to get started right now, you can print out The Eight Steps of Forgiving Another, click here, and begin to study the process that will take you through and out the other side of an emotional issue. We need to know how to move through and beyond the pain of human existence, and how to wisely integrate our painful and disappointing experiences. Then we can move forward into positive dreams and a joyful sense of purpose in our lives. When we learn to love and accept ourselves as we are, and our little life as it is, we will experience a great stream of love flowing into us from the heart of the Creator. Paradoxically, our deep acceptance of things as they are will also naturally empower us to create things as we wish they could be, too.

Forgiveness: do it for you!