So hard, this forgiveness. When the insult weighs heavy; when the trespass is deep…
Forgive and forget? Not likely is it? Why bother with forgiveness then? Why bother when we still remember? We still remember.
Yes, this isn’t easy. All the more reason to push through your discomfort, your unease. Those feelings are your signal to push through, to move, to cause change and transformation within yourself. Do not create a quagmire standing in a stagnant pool, do not sit and fester. Sweeping things under the rug only works for so long until the dust begins to rise to the surface.
Clean house. Clean up your space. Let go of your resentments. Forgive what needs forgiven. Shake out the rug, clean the glass.
You may not forget the insult or offense and perhaps you are not meant to, that’s alright, that’s OK. What is not OK is carrying this heavy burden of unforgiveness day after day, month after month, year after year.
Clean the windows. Wash the walls, let the light flood in. Let the light in.
Push away your hostility, push away the fight. Let your shoulders drop, unclench your teeth, open your balled up hands, surrender. Surrender.
Surrender into love and compassion for yourself first, this is where you begin. This is where you begin.
This is draining the swamp. This is washing the floors, cleaning the toilets. This is getting the job done by doing what is necessary, doing what is hard.
Don’t wait another day. Do it now, it is time. It is time. Let tomorrow be a new day, a fresh start, a breath of fresh air. Bring in the flowers, open the curtains, raise the windows.
Channeled message from the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor. The Greeks knew her as Aphrodite and the Romans knew her as Venus. In the Bible she is described as Mary Magdalene. She is the mistress of music, dance, garlands and myrrh. Musicians play tambourines, harps, lyres and sistra in Hathor’s honor. Hathor’s joyful, ecstatic side reveals her feminine, procreative power, in some myths she helped produce the world itself. She is the eye of Ra, his feminine counterpart. She was praised for her beautiful hair and called “the mistress of love”. With maternal and uninhibited sexuality, this sky goddess is depicted with the cow. In mining she is connected to turquoise, copper, malachite and amethyst. In the afterlife, the womb of Hathor allows deceased souls to be reborn.