Hi wonderful ladies on hive, I hope we are enjoying our week. What a great topic this week! Must will forgive everyone for our health? Or does everyone deserves forgiveness? I think this topic is a universal one, which everyone can relate to, because we don't exist in isolation. We meet and relate to people on daily basis and there is no how people will not offend us.
But I think we must forgive everyone, even if everyone does not deserves our forgiveness.
To me, forgiveness is more that pardoning our offenders. Forgiveness is loosing ourselves from boundages of hatred and bitterness. When we don't forgive, we don't only hold our offenders to ransom, but also ourselves. If we don't forgive, it means we are still holding unto that pain and of course, we will not be happy and will hate the person more and more.
I am not a doctor but I can assert that Unforgiveness can cause hypertension. (Laughing out loud). I really mean it. I don't know if it has happened to you before. Sometimes, we go in shock, when we suddenly bump into our those we fail to forgive, even when they are the ones that offended us, we found ourselves at the receiving end of tension, rege and the likes that can pressurise us. So, why should we keep punishing ourselves for the offence of others.
In fact, forgiveness is the best control measure for offenders. Sometimes, the gravity of people's offence can be so high, that they believe themselves that it is not pardonable. Forgiving such an offender can outrightly change the person's entire life, because the forgiveness was unexpected.
Forgiveness totally shifts the guilt and shame from the innocent to the offenders. At times, Unforgiveness makes us guilty as well as the person that offends us. Two wrongs never make a right. Sometime this year, my landlord's brother packed out of the house, because he had some family problem with his brother, who was our landlord but resides in America. The worse was that when he was packing out, he left with the water fetcher that we were all using in the house. It pained so much, because I didn't know until I wanted to fetch water the following morning and we were left with nothing.
Few weeks after, his wife called me on phone telling me she wanted to come to the house and fetch water as there was no water where they moved. Imagine, they never knew they could come back to that house for help. I was so pissed. In fact, I didn't want to pick her calls at first. I even wanted to take the new water fetcher we bought away and watch her suffer this same way they took the former fetcher away, but I didn't.
Instead, I decided to forgive them, picked her call, allowed her to fetch with the new one we bought and she took the news to her husband, which made them regret what they did earlier and apologized. That is just it. Even the Bible asks to forgive those that trespassed against us. So doing, we can have a better world.
Thanks for reading.
The picture is was taken by my phone.
