Self-forgiveness
Self-forgiveness Is a path to healing That leads To gentleness. Gentleness with self And gentleness with others Who may find healing In the way we relate to them.
Self-forgiveness Is a path to healing That leads To gentleness. Gentleness with self And gentleness with others Who may find healing In the way we relate to them.
Dodzi Jean-Antoine Amemado is a university scholar. He also works with the Federal Government in Ottawa.
Dallas McQuarrie
Posted at 06:13h, 28 MarchA common synonym for the adjective ‘gentle,’ at least in my dictionary, is ‘forgiving.’ Forgiving is the key to finding salvation, as Jesus points out when he says “… if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses” (Matt 6;15). We need to be gentle because one cannot be harsh and forgiving – the two are mutually exclusive. When Micah listed the three things God requires of us (Micah 6:8), ‘kindness’ is second, bracketed by ‘doing justice’ and ‘walking humbly with God.’ The ultimate in kindness or gentleness is found in forgiving and once we acknowledge our own shortcomings and forgive ourselves, that forgiveness we give our self predisposes and prepares us to forgive others. And that is what we must do if we are to glorify God (rather than ourselves) with our lives.
Peter Bisson
Posted at 08:59h, 28 MarchThank you Dodzi!