8th August 2013
LESSON
TWO
On
the night of Friday 5th July 2013, my husband came and knocked on
the door to the room I was sleeping in. I had been sleeping in the visitor’s
room for several months after I decided to end my marriage. I would not have opened
the door had I not been sleeping.
I
never spoke to my husband. I stopped speaking to him many months before I moved
out of our bedroom and eventually even stopped picking his calls. For many
months we lived in complete silence. I never asked him for anything at all.
Thanks to my God, I have a successful career and was making my own money which
was enough for me to provide for myself and my three children sufficiently.
On
that night, when I opened the door and saw my husband standing there, I almost
collapsed. I quickly came to my senses and listened to what he had to say.
Fortunately he had not learned of what I had been doing for the last 4 days. I
had been moving mine and my children’s clothes and personal effects to my mum’s
house with the intention of leaving him and taking the children with me. He was
not aware that this night was the very last night I was ever to spend in that
house.
He
said that he wanted to talk to me and I quickly said that I couldn’t talk
because I was sleeping and perhaps we could talk on the next day. I will never
know what it was that he wanted to talk about because the next day I left
before he was awake. I did not want to talk. The last time we talked, I
expressly told him that I was done talking. There really was nothing left to
say. I had said, heard and seen enough to know that I was never meant to have
survived my marriage. I was never meant to have had any children and if I had
any, even my children were never meant to survive the marriage.
God
is good. He is a good God. He taught me to forgive my husband and move on with
my life. Forgiveness really truly is not for the person who hurts you but for
you who is hurt. What my husband had done was unforgiveable. I was nevertheless
able to forgive him when I realized that what he had done had destroyed him and
not me or my children. Like Shadrack, Meshack and Abednego, I had been put into
a burning furnace and came out not even smelling of smoke!
Today
I want to teach you about forgiveness and just how easy it is when you know
what it means to forgive.
You
can only forgive a person when you are able to rise above your own pain and
hurt and realize the following:-
1.
Anyone
who hurts you has been hurt. More often than not, that person was not hurt by
you.
2.
Anyone
who hurts you hurts too.
3.
You
will never understand why anyone hurts you.
4.
You
can understand that anyone who hurts another is motivated by his/her own pain
and not by his/her own pleasure.
5.
Being
hurt by someone is a choice.
6.
The
only alternative choice to being hurt is to change. You either hurt or you
change.
7.
Never
wait for the person who hurt you to change. More often than not, that will
never happen.
8.
It
is you, and not the person who hurt you, who has to change for you to stop
hurting.
9.
Even
if, by some miracle, the person who hurt you changes, you will never stop
hurting until you change too.
10.The change you have to make is to strive
to become a better person.
11. You cannot change yourself.
12. Only your maker; your creator; the one
true living God, can change you and make you a better person.
13. Forgiveness is the only means by which to
stop hurting and choose to change.
14.Forgiveness comes when the hurt is worth
the change you see in you.
15. You can never become a better person if
you never get hurt.
Summary for This Lesson:-
Do not let the pain
hurt you, let it change you.
Tip
for this lesson:-
The lesson is in the doing. Don’t try to
understand forgiveness; just do it.
Power in forgiveness
ReplyDeleteA person who hurts others is a person who has been hurt and to relieve the pain of the hurt s/he passes to the next person. Remember the 1st law of Thermodynamics, that energy is neither created nor destroyed; it is simply passed from one matter to the other. Emotion is an Acronym for Energies in Motion. People who are full of negative emotions have actually picked those feelings from others and are simply passing it to others. Simple physics. Have you ever quarreled somebody and after the quarrel you feel relieved? It because you have successfully passed on the negative energy to that person you were quarreling. Similarly, someone who hurts others by doing certain things have come into contacts with people who have those energies and have simply passed it to him/her. Do not allow someone to pass those energies to you. Hang around people with positive attitudes for they will pass those positive energies to you. Forget about those who hurt you. By forgetting them, they will not successfully pass the negative energy to you and so these energies will remain with them and you will be in peace. You can do this by avoiding any contact with them whatsoever using your 5 senses and your subconscious mind. When you forgive them you deny them the opportunity to poison your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind is the most powerful tool you have. Kindly read these books in addition to your bible;
ReplyDelete1. The Power of Your Subconscious by Dr. Murphy.
2. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
3. Working with Emotional Intelligence by Dale Carnigie
4. Think Big by Benjamin Carson
They will really enrich your feelings because as person feels so is s/he. I you feel you are a failure you will fail if you feel you are a winner you will win and if you feel you are a victim you will become one and if you feel you are a victor you will be a victor. It is all in our minds not their minds.
Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong, its like setting a prisoner free and to discover that the prisoner was you!
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