Posted by Tiffany Jones on November 3, 2012 at 9:44pm
I was sitting in church one Sunday morning listening to a dynamic sermon by my pastor, a very captivating man of God. As the sermon was coming to a close, you could see the tissue box being passed up and down the aisles as people were wiping away their tears. The message really touched the spirit as many could identify with the word that was given. The title of the sermon was Let It Go. Throughout this life, we inevitably will encounter people and situations that create resentment and bitterness in our hearts. That hurt can carry on for days, weeks, months and oftentimes years, because we simply cannot Let Go of the painful situation we rather wish never happened at all. But it did happen and the moment it does, there are two roads ahead to travel. The road of forgiveness or the road of resentment. If you unfortunately haven traveled the road of resentment, the weight of your hurt may have built up and caused you to have negative emotions that won't leave you. But what we need to realize is that, you're not hurting the person that betrayed you, you are only bringing more harm, more hurt, more negativity into your life because you continue to dwell on it and not Let Go. When you're at the point where you wish evil and harm onto the person that caused this pain, then you've become a prisoner to the situation. You can never accomplish all that you were created to be until you forgive the one who hurt you and release the pain that is attached to it. Forgiveness is a gift, but not a gift for them, the forgiveness is for you. Once you forgive, you've altered your course and are now traveling the road of forgiveness, which leads to joy, happiness, prosperity, abundance and a life filled with blessings.How do you free yourself from resentment. You have to Face It! You cannot fix what you do not face. Don't ignore it, face it! Don't run from it, face it!Face what is holding you hostage in your resentment.Once you've accomplished that, then Forgive It!We have to be able to truly forgive. Just because you've chosen to forgive doesn't mean that you forget, you've simply been able to detach the negative and hurtful emotion that was attached to the pain.In order to forgive, we also must let go of pride. Forget your pride and protocol and finally Let Go of your past. Let the past go and never mind the "why it happened". If you've truly forgiven, the why doesn't matter anymore.If you need to Let It Go, start your journey by facing the problem and forgiving those involved. Don't continue to be a prisoner to your past, but yet be the light in your future and make a choice that will bless your life today.The Lesson Learned Is: When you encounter a situation in your life that strips you on your joy, your peace of mind, your sanity, your happiness, make the choice to let it go and move forward with your life, taking with you the valuable life lesson this experience taught you.Love and Gratitude,The Black Woman's Rule Book
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