Many, many people can’t see,
They cannot possibly agree,
But the only way we can live,
Is to resolve what we need to forgive.
***
BITTERNESS will keep us from life and life
will keep us from bitterness. If we can only see how life and bitterness are
poles apart, God will do the rest for us by our faith to simply obey what he
requires of us.
This is life: the fullest expression of what
it means to exist. It is the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual
capacity to experience reality – in all its fullness. But life in this way is
an ebbing, flowing process that none of us ever masters, but we can grow in it (and
we should).
Forgiveness is always a decision – and to
be fair, for those struggling, it’s a process. But once a decision has been
made, there will be sufficient commitment to carry the struggle through –
onward toward and to the goal.
And forgiveness is the cusp of recovery.
Having decided, and having come to the precipice of the prices to be paid to
forge a recovery from bitterness unto life, and having braced for the journey
with courage, the cusp was seen, experienced and endured.
Journeying further than perhaps ever
before, seeing the possibilities for life, even for the relatively small cost
of pride surrendered, the bitterness is let go.
Bitterness is caused by perceptions of
transgression, but bitterness, of itself, is a sin against God for having
refused to relate. To forgive is to reconcile with a person, even if that
reconciliation means to never need to converse with the person again. There is
just no animosity there any more.
It is always wrong to allow bitterness its
full extent of reign. Bitterness usurps the role of God to judge. Bitterness
usually reveals the choice to side with only one part of the story – a choice
against the fullness of reality. Yes, that’s life; being able to experience
life in all its fullness without compromising emotionally.
To experience life is the halcyon of human
experience; to tap into joy, peace, hope, and all varieties of virtue that
flourish in our lives.
***
Bitterness will keep us from forgiveness
and forgiveness will keep us from bitterness. Forgiveness guards our hearts,
but bitterness is a nowhere road to a hell of our own making. Bitterness is
never right, and the courage expended to forgive is always rewarded.
©
2014 S. J. Wickham.
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