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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"life",<br>"author":"philcasey",<br>"permlink":"forgiveness",<br>"title":"Forgiveness",<br>"body":"Just as I had wrong others,<br> others had wronged me. Though in many circumstances contact had been broken with these people for many years,<br> whenever I thought of them the hurt they caused would rise in my heart.\nAgain,<br> this didn\u2019t sit right in my gut. All these negative emotions about things that happened long ago. Who were they negatively affecting? Me of course. Was I processing them in a good and healthy manner? Obviously not.\nI chose to look past the exterior and any wrong they may have done and instead looked to see the good in them. \nJust as I had made mistakes,<br> so too have they. Neither of us can go back in time to undo it.\nI learned quickly that the healthiest thing to do is forgive them. And I did,<br> from the bottom of my heart. I know this to be true forgiveness because whenever I hear they are having a tough time in their life,<br> my heart goes out to them and I really hope they will be okay and everything will work out for them in the end.\n\nHaving resolved my own remorse and regret and having forgiven those who wronged me I noticed a marked increase in my empathy for others,<br> those who I knew,<br> as well as strangers.",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"life\",<br>\"inspiration\",<br>\"religion\",<br>\"spirituality\",<br>\"christianity\" ,<br>\"app\":\"steemit\/0.1\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\" " |
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