Happy Full Moon, everyone!
Just a few thoughts I'd like to offer you as I prepare for tonight's speech. I sense that when we don't forgive a thing, whether our own shortcomings or someone else's, something never feels 'quite right' with the world. The reason being is because we never feel 'quite right' with ourselves when we have unresolved forgiveness, AKA Unresolved Grief.
The world itself never feels quite right until we resolve this gift of pain. I could offer you a warm embrace to help you experience what forgiveness and healing feel like, but I'll have to hug you with my words instead.
Maybe someday you will get that hug, perhaps not, but one hug you can ALWAYS get is the one you give to yourself.
In speeches, I often mention The More Loving One, a poem by W.H. Auden, and how it shifted my consciousness. In silence and prayerful circumspection, I ask you to consider its' import:
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.
Listen carefully and feel this truth. If you give love to others, even if you are single, alone in a prison cell, or being hurt by hurting people, you will always have love in your life.
Forgiveness is, first and foremost, an expression of love born from and delivered to you. But for most of us, we love for we were first loved.