How to forgive

[Guest guest]

There is an article in the latest issue of The AARP

Magazine (for you youngsters, that's the American

Association of Retired People, and you don't have to

be retired to belong, LOL) called '50 Things You Need

to Know by 50.' The #2 thing on the list is 'how to

forgive,' and there is a short quote from actor George

Takei, who played 'Sulu' on the original Star Trek,

that I thought might be interesting to us as we

practice forgiveness:

 

" I grew up in U.S. Internment camps during World War

II. We were surrounded by barbed wire fences and

machine guns. We took communal showers and meals, and

a searchlight followed us on night runs to the

latrine. After the war, my mother and father couldn't

find housing, and I had a teacher who called me

'little Jap boy.' That stung. But my parents taught

me that being bitter only pickles the one that stews

in the brine. Good advice. The bullies were the ones

stewing in their own spite and ignorance. Once you

realize that those who hurt you also hurt themselves,

it is easier to forgive them. And that's liberating. "

 

Blessings & love,

Claudia

 

 

 

 

 

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