Being Present Through Forgiveness

Forgiveness is a difficult concept we will explore in many ways this year. On a human level, it simply seems unjust and unfair to ‘let someone off the hook’.

Today, let’s understand forgiveness as letting go of the past and anything that keeps us stuck there. If the present is the only moment in time that is real, then forgiving the past would mean dropping a dream, shedding an illusion, forgetting the movie on the screen and remembering our Self as the unchanging screen upon which it played.

Suggestion:

Let yourself play with the idea of being completely present. Imagine yourself here now, letting the past fall away, the future look after itself.

Does it feel heavier or lighter? Contracted or expansive? Trapped or freed? This is a choice we all have the power to make.

A beautiful passage from a book by Stuart Wilson and Joanna Prentis:

“If you can forgive completely the past disappears for you. If you forgive completely you don’t need to worry about the future either, you can function as fully aware beings, fully conscious beings, working and moving in the moment and focusing the energies of the Divine Presence.

Nothing else is important, nothing else will exist for you.

This is why Jesus excited so many people, they could feel themselves being pulled out of time and into timelessness, out of the past into the everlasting present which is the only place in which you have power.

The past and the future, if you are entangled with guilt or with worries and anxieties, rob you of your power. Only the present gives you power, and forgiveness is the key to ensuring you stay within that focus, expanding your awareness and living fully within the moment.

This is living as God intended. This is joy, this is freedom - and this is what Jesus taught. This is the most wonderful gift which he gave to us.”

Source: The Essenes, Children of the Light: A Voyage of Past Life Regression that Unravels the Mysterious Essene Knowledge and Secret Teachings of Jesus Christ