Enlightenment at Gunpoint
"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." —Lewis B. Smedes
Are you holding a grudge? Let it go, just as you would remove a cancerous tumor that is slowly draining the life out of you. Grudges and resentment are like psychological tumors that drain our emotional and spiritual well-being.
Richard Rohr writes about his 14 years working in a hospice. He observed that most people eventually come to a realization of the important things in life, but often it happens very late, sometimes in the last year, last month, or even the last five minutes. He called this phenomenon "enlightenment at gunpoint.”
Isn’t it a shame to live a long life only to discover what it was all about in the last five minutes? Holding grudges and refusing to forgive is like living this wonderful life trying to create a better past.
Let’s not wait until we’re standing at the gravesite or lying in a hospice to forgive, apologize, or to love
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