I find peace through forgiveness
 

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I find peace through forgiveness.

After feeling hurt or wronged by another person, I may wonder, “How could they do that?” When I am upset, I may seek answers, believing answers will ease my pain. Yet peace comes not through logic or reason, but through spiritual understanding. While I may never know how or why something happened, I can always find peace through forgiveness.

Shifting my awareness from the situation, softly breathing in Spirit, I focus on my heart space. I ask my Higher Power for understanding. As I release defensiveness or blame, the healing love of God frees me and all concerned from this experience.

I choose to forgive and my mind and heart are at peace.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.—Psalm 51:10

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Not only forgiveness of others, but for ourselves too. That was the hardest part for me even though I knew that my God was forgiving and His Love was unconditional.

You remind me Jo of when I was doing my amends list that I was told to put myself on that list also. To make amends to myself and forgive myself. I was also told that God had already forgiven me.

Had a guy share at a meeting and say, "I starting making an amend to myself the day I walked through the doors of recovery."

Amends isn't saying "I'm sorry!" It means changing yourself, so you won't continue to make the same mistakes and going to someone and sharing and telling them that you won't do it again. It take a long time for us to get to that stage, it isn't a quick "Sorry! I am out of here." It isn't about the other person, it is about our part and what we did to get us to that situation. It isn't always the drug, but the thinking behind the addiction, and that is what we need to change.

I had a counsellor tell me at 6 years sober, "Why haven't you forgiven yourself?" I stared at her, my mouth was open, and I said, "I never thought to ask." I didn't feel worthy of forgiveness and was playing the martyr and the victim.