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Forgiving is Ongoing

by Catherine Doherty

By November 25, 2019November 23rd, 2023No Comments

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As time goes on, all of us are asked to plunge into forgiveness in various degrees, especially forgiveness of ourselves.

So many of us are still thrashing around in the net of our emotions which create in us a poor self-image. We forget that we have the “scissors” of God’s grace and the example of his forgiveness to cut that net.

Forgiveness is not something that we practice once or twice; it is not an action that we do a hundred times. No. It should grow into a solid virtue and become a habitual state in which we forgive almost constantly, even while we are being rejected, ignored, spat upon, and so on.

There is something divine about forgiveness; it is truly and closely aligned to charity, to love, to God himself. Factually, it is God alone who can forgive because, as the Psalmist says: In your sight alone we have sinned (Psalm 51:4).

So if we really love God, we must activate that love by forgiving—forgiving ourselves, and others.

Excerpted from Dearly Beloved, vol. 3, (1990) February 28, 1977, p.132, available from MH Publications

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