Forgiveness for Self and Others
by Have we lost the ability to forgive? What is forgiveness?
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Forgive and you will be forgiven is what we are taught. So just how do we forgive? It took me over thirty years to forgive one doctor for what he did to me and my young child. I remember his name and the city where he practices. What did he do? He destroyed true records about my being beaten by my husband at the time because he was in medical school and he was protecting his cohort. The ex has never asked my forgiveness nor has that doctor. I and my child have forgiven them. Another doctor had his nurse tell me on the telephone a family member would die shortly. That was well over three years ago. Yet, it hurt all of my family. Especially one member who had a nervous breakdown because of that doctor. Good doctors are hard to come by. Yes, they make mistakes and even kill people by them. Yet, they do more good than bad on the whole. They are too busy with paper work and trying to communicate these days. During the great depression, they worked for little or no pay. They followed the Hippocratic oath and I mean the first one, not the revised version. Nurses take oaths also. So to intentionally harm or refuse to help them is inexcusable. Sick persons are not themselves. To be mean or reject an ill person is just wrong. Holding a grudge only harms the one who holds it. To obtain true forgiveness, you go to the person you have harmed and ask for it. This takes courage for they have a choice not to forgive you. Your conscience will tell you right from wrong so develop it in your children and self. Letting a person who wronged you have control over you as an adult is not good. Stay away from them and move on.
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