Written By : Deanna Marie Battista
Welcome blue ribbons! You’ve got mail. With this letter from heaven, the angels sent us a very important message to not only read and learn from, but to take with us and especially bring to others. Forgiveness is something that can be one of the hardest things to either ask for or give to someone else. Through emotional heartache, hurt and betrayal, anger and high tempers, as well as what some can say in an understandable view as damage beyond repair; I call forth as do the angels beyond me and ask you if anything is too desolate for God to forgive us from. To wash away our sins and make us new again. To cover us with the blood of the lamb and bring us to the forefront of what God’s healing hand and love can restore. Should we not only ask God but those we’ve hurt in this world to forgive us? Should we not only implore God to forgive even though that’s what he does, yet we ask him anyway? Most of us do. Some of us may even be afraid to. But what of those who sin gravely against us and forgiveness hurts more than the wounds we bare because of it? Some things only God can forgive, I believe this to be true as well. But at the same time, no stone has been left unturned and no bridge has been left broken within my life and personal experience. When people tell us who they are, write it down and when people show us who they are, listen. Sometimes going your separate ways can ultimately lead to the healing that irreconcilable differences cannot when being around that other person. So whether it be a parent, your mother or father. Whether it be a sibling, your sister or your brother. Whether it be your significant other, husband or wife. An aunt or an uncle. Someone who married into your family. A co-worker. A friend. Someone who you trusted. When you feel blindsided by the hurt someone has dished out behind the path you made in their wake, it can be the hardest of ways that leads to healing. Even sometimes away from that person. Sometimes even God will prune away at things we don’t need. That can apply to various people in our lives too. The heartache people can bring to each other is a sadness most haven’t been warned against until it has happened to them. With those words and the sentiment of forgiving those who have wronged you, and loving like Jesus does who told us to do the same as him. It can be easier said than done. It can become harsher than any trauma you’ve endured. To let go, give to God what you no longer are beholden to carry. I tell you, do not carry your pain around with you like it’s the most precious thing you own. It isn’t, trust me when I say. When I tell you no wrong done against me do I begrudge. I have forgiven many sins. I have even forgiven myself for the anger I choose to carry. Anger, resentment and hatred are one in the same. They are the most dangerous kind of poison. It’s the sharpest hand to hold, the serrated edge of what you give to others you also give to yourself. There isn’t a form of hate that can’t be directed back at the person who holds this potent toxin. It’s something we have to release. So we can gain the wings we are meant to. To rise and fly above the echo of sin. We have to not only continue to walk our path, following the footsteps not far behind our creator. We also have to make new ones for those to follow the impressions of the kind of sweet to be. To leave the sour behind. To cool the temper away and become smooth and silky enough to leave our voices kissed without rage. So hold the only hand we are meant too, and reflect the only image we are supposed to see. To love those who love us. But mostly to love those who don’t. Let go of the hurt and also what un-forgiveness can burrow, so you can give yourself the grace to heal. Until the next letter from heaven falls down from the clouds above, let's embrace the stars that people will throw down on us and illuminate them out of the darkness of habit and sew them back into the sky where they belong, with one bible page and verse at a time.
Wow amazing!