give and forgive...part 2

Hehehe. ryanphil, the second to the last sentence should have read *my heart*. Heh. I need to take Sustagen or better yet, go back to a meat diet. I am beginning to have memory gap, memory lapses, whatever it is. At times I find myself writing a word the way it sound. Lol.

i had this personal experience regarding forgiveness. there was a time when i was very angry with my father. He has done something wrong that was beyond forgiveness. I was really furious and I wanted him out of the house. Then my mind was focused on the rambutan fruit. I could almost feel the thorny/hairy rind, but I knew that inside of that rind the fruit was soft and delicious. As I was looking at the fruit, I was suddenly impressed with the fact that the thorny covering cound be representative of the rind that sin puts around us, while the fruit remains intact within the rind. It is able to bear more fruits and to feed others if the rind is removed from it. My spirit grasped what the Lord was tyring to show me. The thorny and hairy rind represented my father's hardened heart and his sinful lifestyle. At one point, I understood what forgiveness and healing from God's point of view. I know the He loved my father for who he was and not for what he had become. I realized then that I had to separate my father's actions from his created being and I understood that I could forgive someone like my father. You, too can do it. Let's not wait for them to take the first step to reach us but readily extend our hands to reach them.

you are correct lola. although it's man's nature that we couldn't forget easily the harm done to us, towards the end, the goodness in us will just teach us how to be humble and really forgiving.

EXACTLY. Don't do unto others what you do not want others do to you.