I found this video meditation on forgiveness on YouTube. A little “me” oriented, it is fundamentally correct and soothing.

Forgiveness is so vital to living a happy life. Resentment is a concentrated poison that leaches into every corner of a life. We cannot be fully alive as long as we hold resentments and unforgiveness.

Yet forgiveness is not necessarily as “easy” as this video makes it out to be.

Make no mistake – forgiveness is not a simple intellectual act. True forgiveness is an emotional transformation. The ability to forgive terrible harm comes through grace. You may be taken through profound changes.

First create the intention to forgive, then pray for guidance to be led to those experiences, thoughts and feelings that will transform you and allow you to forgive.

Just watching a video will not necessarily transform your inner landscape. Yet it may help you to begin thinking about who you need to forgive and how to go about it.

And that is a beginning.

Dear God,

Is there someone against whom I am holding resentment?

Create within me a desire to let go of it.

Guide me to healing and complete forgiveness.

For both the world and I deserve the peace that deep forgiveness brings.

Thank You,
Amen.

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“Then came Peter to him, and said, lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.” Matthew 18:21,22