Forgiveness and Love

"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love." ~ Bryant N. McGill

A very good morning everyone. :) Last evening, I had the pleasure of meeting with Kia Scherr, co-founder of One Life Alliance, a beautiful community that encourages and honours the oneness and sacredness of life. One Life Alliance is a non-profit spiritual organisation that was founded last year, to honour and respect all those who lost their lives during the 26/11 (2008) terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Kia herself lost her dearest husband and daughter at The Trident.

So many of us talk about the beauty of forgiveness, Kia is a shining example of living it. One of the main factors that ails our race is our inability to forgive, let go and move on. Most, spend time focusing on the pain and questioning it. It's all right to do that, in fact, feeling pain and questioning it is necessary, but, in time that pain and questioning must progress to acceptance and that very pain must turn into a helping hand. If we focus on the pain and hurt for time immortal, we breed hate, and slowly, ever so slowly, a painful situation changes us... for the worse.

Kia is a personification of a painful situation changing her for the better through the forgiveness and love she embodies. Yes, she was crushed, broken and found it hard (sometimes even impossible to pick-up the pieces), but, she decided that she would honour her husband and daughter's memory by acknowledging and respecting the 'sacredness of life'. Kia said, "A part of me died with my husband ad daughter that day. However, I've reached out to so many people through One Life Alliance, that I am now more alive in a way."

Her soft eyes reflect peace through her loss. Her focus is now setting up One Life Alliance in Mumbai, a city whose very spirit was attacked two years ago.

Forgiveness, how many of us really understand what the word means? Forgiveness is often confused with condoning a perpetrators actions. Far from it; Kia rightfully said, "Forgiveness is not about condoning what happened; it's about accepting what happened and then making a change for the better." Indeed, forgiveness is not about condoning or forgetting, it's about, being able to move-on, in spite of remembering what hurt us so terribly. It's an act that transforms pain into positive change. Forgiveness, like love, transcends time and space.

Love and forgiveness embody the universe. We're here because our good Lord loves us, love us so very much that he's given us a chance to enforce positive change. He's given us the ability to love selflessly, give endlessly and share ceaselessly. There is no greater joy than loving without motive and giving without expecting. Try it, your soul will give you a confirmation. 

It's time all us took a deeper look at ourselves. Is there anything that is troubling you? If yes, then be sure that there is a lesson in that confusion. Just believe and trust in the good Lord and know that in its time, everything will fall into place. Sometimes, things may not always work out the way we want them to, but you can be sure that they work out the way the good Lord wants them to... and it is this that makes it right. The sacredness of life is what our good Lord wants us to experience.

Life on earth began with love and it's this love and forgiveness that is keeping it going for so long, in spite of the turmoil our world in in today.

http://www.onelifealliance.org/ Come let's honour the sacredness of life.

As I get ready to begin my day, let's join our souls in a silent prayer:

Dear Lord, thank you for a new day

Another chance for me to love you and everyone I meet

Strengthen my resolve to do according to your will

Help me to forgive and understand

Help me to change at least one person's life for the better today

Help me to respect the beautiful sacredness of life

I pray that my smile brightens someone's day

I pray that I serve you and do according to your will in all my dealings today

Thank you my Lord, thank you for giving me another chance to do all this and more

As we end this prayer, let's open our hearts and send out a wave of love, joy and care to the universe. Let's pray that this wave reaches everyone on earth, especially those most in need of a healing hug.

Have a fabulously blessed day everyone. :)