Saturday, August 21, 2010

Forgiveness: Who Has the Key?

If all I need to do is forgive, how do I really accomplish that in my daily life?  It would be so nice if I could just find the key to forgiveness, it seems I've been searching and searching for the longest time for that key; I think I may have found an answer that makes total sense to me:

My brother holds the key to my forgiveness

What?  You mean I can only forgive if I first look to my brother?  I can't believe I did not make that connection earlier, I mean I've heard about projecting my guilt onto my brother and that in order to see myself as 'sinless' I need to first see it in my brother, but this passage made it clear to me that my brother really holds the key; without his key I cannot forgive:

The key you threw away God gave your brother, whose holy hands would offer it to you when you were ready to accept His plan for your salvation in the place of yours.  How could this readiness be reached save through the sight of all your misery, and the awareness that your plan has failed, and will forever fail to bring you peace and joy of any kind?  Through this despair you travel now, yet it is but illusion of despair. The death of specialness is not your death, but your awaking into life eternal. You but emerge from an illusion of what you are to the acceptance of yourself as God created you. (T-24, II. 14)

How happy I am to finally found the key, for everytime I see my brother as sinful (separate; which is most of the time), I just need to look again and see that he has the key, I can imagine it as a key on a chain around his neck, waiting there for me to gently take it back -- to see him and myself as sinless -- one

parting thought:  have fun taking the key back

1 comment:

  1. I love this line especially..."The death of specialness is not your death, but your awaking into life eternal"...and I love you Dan...

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