Injury and pardon

HOW DO you pardon someone who has physically injured your child and caused him to be physically disabled for life? How do you pardon someone who besmirched your reputation, turned your best friends against you, caused you sleepless nights, and millions in lost income?

These and other similar happenings put us to the test.

As I continue to read the book of Wayne W. Dyer entitled “There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem”, allow me to quote from it, and to share my insights on such a humanly challenging act of pardon.

St. Francis of Assisi says, “Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon...”

Do you forgive when you are right, feel you are right, or, do you forgive when you are in the wrong?

Obviously, you do not forgive when you are the one who needs to ask for pardon.

We need to be enlightened and forgive when we are in the right, and feel offended. What stops us from forgiving is often our ego. Dyer asks us to go beyond our ego. He defines ego as “nothing more than an idea that you carry around that identifies you as separate from everyone else and defines you as the sum total of your accomplishments and acquisitions. In short, your ego tells you that you are your personality and your body that needs to compete with all those other bodies and personalities you encounter every day”.

“These very thoughts of self-contempt, limited thinking, and fear of not measuring up will manifest in some form of injury or illness. These inner thoughts of ego are nothing more than errors”.

For me, ego, is our sense of pride, the opposite of Humility.

Often times, we mask our insecurities thru an enhanced display of our ego.

To bring pardon where injury resides, we must transcend our ego.

This can be difficult for some, but believe that God can transform us by a renewing of the mind.

Romans 12:2 says, “Do not be conformed to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.”

“If you want a truly healthy body, and the ability to sow pardon in the face of any kind of injury, you must heal your mind with unconditional love and recognize that your body is a firmly entrenched instrument of spirit. Make your mind vigorous, loving, healthy and positive and your body will respond accordingly.”

Yes, people who have hatred, anger, guilt and shame in them need inner healing that works wonders in their physical health.

For those who witness and bear the suffering of a person filled with ego:

“Always see the unfolding of God in every person, and teach those in young afflicted bodies to do the same. It is in such teaching that pardon is brought to the presence of injury and will facilitate the healing process.”