March 14, 2011

Time to Forget

“I might forgive them, but I will never forget it.” How many times have we heard this statement? How many times have we said this statement?

A lot of the time when we have said this; we never intended on forgiving the person.  We may say we do, but we never do.  The same goes in our own life, we don’t forget the stuff in our past and still hold it against ourselves.  I know I have been guilty of this at times.  It is about time we do some forgetting.  We are allowing this remembering to rob of us and prevent us from forgiving.  It has also kept us from living our destiny.  We are held down by all those unforgiving memories.  Some of the things we are holding on to happened over 50 years ago, for some. It is time we let stuff go.  “I just can’t forget what they said to me,” “There is no way I can forget what they did to me.”  Again statements we hear and have said.  I have forgotten my name at times; don’t tell me we can’t forget.  We remember what we want to remember.  So why would we hang on to painful stuff, stuff that is only hurting us again and again?  We even protect these memories with walls of excuses.    I choose today to forget the harmful memories and to remember the helpful memories.  In doing this, we will be letting go of the poison that has kept us mentally and emotionally sick for years.