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Susan Beneville's avatar

My "meanders" are so much more meander-y than this. Here is the meandering that your meander triggered.

I think forgiveness is such a misunderstood concept. So often we treat it as an exoneration, or letting off the hook, or reconciliation. But, isn't it really more simple than that? It is detaching from something that causes us pain. Releasing the hold that some "wrong" has on us. It is a choice we make for ourselves. So, self-forgiveness is a choice we make to release the shame, guilt, disappointment, criticism, and wounding that we do to ourselves. It is the recognition that self deprecation serves no purpose, so why do it? Release it. Let it go. Unburden ourselves from it.

I'm trying to make that kind of release a habit. I screw up. I see it. I reflect on it. I learn from it. I let it go.

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Leslie Absher's avatar

Love this...just what I needed to read. Also I love the idea of "living in a particular direction" as opposed to a destination. Yes!

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