I DO NOT plan on repeating my mistakes of anger, resentment, and abuse. I DO NOT plan on repeating my mistakes due to a failure of compassion.
Forgiving myself for the past is something that I'm working on. I've made progress...but I've still got work to do here. It's not easy. I know I can't change it...this lady says in her book 'forgiveness is letting go of all hopes for a better past.' And I believe in order to learn from the past, a man must 'forgive it.' I have accepted, I know it happened...and I hate it that I was like that.
I agree. The here and now is where we should be living. It's just a hard thing. Like I said earlier, we forgive others easier than we forgive ourselves...and it shouldn't be that way. We should be just as willing to forgive ourselves as we are willing to forgive others!
ps - How are you?
"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." - William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830's.
