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"Weight Loss And...Forgiveness?"
While many things that others have done to us can be impossible to forget,
they are not impossible to forgive.
To "forget" that something traumatic has happened is to live
in denial, and to say in essence that it never happened. But forgiveness
is a very different thing. The true beneficiary of your forgiveness, first
and foremost, will always be you.
By the same token, the one person who is guaranteed to always suffer from
your unwillingness to forgive will, again, be you. So you see, in reality,
forgiveness has little to do with the other person, and everything
to do with you.
To forgive someone does not mean that we must walk up to them and say
"I forgive you." They need never even know--which is a good
thing, as they are often dead by the time we're ready to forgive them.
Forgiveness is a private act, a conscious choice, based on the
awareness that we ourselves have been the one suffering because of the
absence of our forgiveness. To forgive is to say,
"OK, I have been hauling this burden around long enough, and I have paid a high enough price already. This wasn't rightly my burden in the first place, and I only picked it up because I didn't know I had a choice. Now, at last, I see that I do have a choice--nay--an obligation to lay down this wearisome burden. I owe it to myself to release once and for all what never should have been mine and, by heaven, shall never again burden my shoulders. I deserve better! And now I'm going to get it!"
Once we really "get' this, it becomes
just a matter of time until we are willing to forgive anyone for
anything. Really.
So, knowing this, the question becomes not, "Shall I forgive," but
"How soon shall I forgive?
Following this logic to its natural conclusion, the next question
is, "Since I now know that I will eventually forgive this person,
why wait? Waiting equals suffering. I am no longer into that. So
I'll just do my forgiving now.
Right now.
As Jesus said, "There. It is done."
What does any of this have to do with weight loss? Quite a bit, actually. It's the hurts we can't -- won't -- let go of that weigh down our spirit...metaphorically...and ultimately our body...literally.
To learn more Dr. Frank Smoots Christian based Weight Loss Program please visit
Yours in total health,
Dr. Frank
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