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Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.
"Percy Bysshe Shelley"
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WASHING is the topic for Wednesday April 18. 2012
(homeless woman in tenderloin, sf, 4/16/06)
homeless theresa sitting on sidewalk; born in indianapolis and raised in thousand oaks, ca.
theresa will talk and then start singing a song (somewhere over the rainbow, candle in the wind, ...). or she'll recite a poem about jesus and faith. or she'll heckle a passerby.
theresa's father was a soldier who cheated on his wife such that his daughter (theresa) was born with gonorrhea. she says she was born "dead". she was blind and her legs were deformed. while the blindess was short lived, her legs are still in bad shape despite years in leg braces.
when theresa was about 6, her mother was shot in the head in a public bathroom for money.
"do you know what love is?" she asked
"what is love?"
"love is forgiveness" she responded
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As Yom Kippur approaches,
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"Goddess of Mercy & Compasion"
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Guan Yin is the Chinese Bodhisattva of Compassion and often known in the west as the "Goddess of Mercy". Guan Yin is immensely popular among Chinese Buddhists, especially those from devotional schools. She is generally seen as a source of unconditional love and more importantly as a savior. In her bodhisattva vows, Guan Yin promises to answer the cries and pleas of all beings and to liberate all beings from their own karmic woes. Based upon the Lotus Sutra and the Shurangama sutra, She is generally seen as a savior, both spiritually and physically. The sutras state that through her saving grace even those who have no chance of being Enlightened can be Enlightened, and those deep in negative karma can still find salvation through her compassion.
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In the long run, it's not a question of whether they deserve to be forgiven. You're not forgiving them for their sake. You're doing it for yourself. For your own health and well-being. It frees you from the incredibly toxic, debilitating drain of holding a grudge. Don't let these people live rent free in your head. If they hurt you before, why let them keep doing it year after year in your mind? It's not worth it but it takes heart effort to stop it. You can muster that heart power to forgive them as a way of looking out for yourself. It's one thing you can be totally selfish about.
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#Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. - Mark Twain
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burning man 2007 - The crowd around the Temple of ForgivenessOn the left, burning (out of the frame: Temple of Forgiveness - Designed by David Best and Tim Dawson - see ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/thetemplecrew/
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The most beautiful of things is about forgiveness. ?
Yes. That makes you stand up and walk over your paint.
Yes. That makes you have more power to move on.
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Cám ơn em !
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Forgiveness is a big word, sometimes it's easy said than done. Deep memories of being hurt, humilated, cheated create emotionals scars. They come deep into the soul being of the person . Some emotional scars do heal quickly , but some do take time and some hardly heal.
Those memories will come and go and sometimes will play back and comes in the way introducing more emotional infectious elements on the scar , comes like a nagging consuming pain that haunts ones being for a period of time. To some people it can be like "forever" to them. It's hard to forgive when you were badly hurt , if the mistake done to you feels like tons over and it can immensely drag you down.
As a Christian we need to forgive those who have made mistakes against us .
Sometimes it's easy to say in just words or even pretend of it , but not from the heart .
It's hard to forgive and forget --- I'm not an exception of this . I find forgiveness such a struggle .
It's a very hard deal sometimes . But we have to forgive. It's a requirement !
Old memories that brings back hurt feelings come into play that you tend to question if we have actually forgiven the person. If you aren't sure, just give it all up to the Lord and ask for peace in your heart that you can forgive this person. By the grace of Christ you can make it.
Jesus offered to those who are heavy laden, to give all your burdens to him and he will give you rest.
"Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you. " 1 Peter5:7
This means everything you carry on your back, give them all to Jesus, as he will carry it for you and will set you free. Without God we can do nothing. But here's the deal :
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" 1 Peter 5:7 , trust the word of God.
If God is working in your life everything is possible ! Have faith and do forgive those who do you wrong past and present.
When you have the peace of God thrugh Christ , it's like a breathe of freedom deep down into your being, like a release and pure happiness -- it's priceless ! I run out of words to describe it .
Here are some Bible verses about forgiveness:
For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
Matthew 6:14-15
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
2 Cor 5v17
And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins. "
Mark 11:25
Leviticus 19:18
'Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
Matthew 22:36-40
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
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Location : Forest Camp , Valencia , Negros Oriental , Philippines
( Forest Camp is approximately 15 minutes from Dumaguete City depending on the traffic ).
Hot weather is driving the local birds into cooler retreats during the bright daylight hours. Even those repugnant goblin birds are keeping a low profile despite their penetrating contact calls and replies as they conduct their equivalent of social media subculture dialogue.
As the evening rolls in the birds come in for a feed, and to refresh in the water scattered about for them. The new baby magpie is bold enough now to come to the door and call out for a handout. Her father has no qualms about going on the bludge, and rarely either Mistress Quickly or her mother Gośka will make an appearance. I keep an eye out for the moulting crimson rosellas; not so much red and blue as a mottled mess now. Extra nutrition is probably a blessing for them. There's a couple of cats about, one a big sleek male always on the prowl and up to no good, so I manage feeding out to limit the intrusion of vermin, cockatoos and the likelihood that a cat will take advantage of distracted feeding birds. I'll offer food up high now and only when I'm present as a cat deterrent.
Remarkably, last evening I spotted a male king parrot swooping into the big old loquat tree. It never yields fruit these days because when it flowers in early winter, the king parrots and crimson rosellas are searching for food and eat the flowers. I'd been critical of the king parrots — Charles and Camilla. She's particularly pushy and domineering. When they disappeared I was quick to suggest that after all I've done for her she'd better come back with babies.
Well, here's the proof. This is the company which came in with Chuck and Millie last evening. The light in here where the cover helps to keep the birds safe was so poor that my camera was firing it's IR focus assist beam. That's the same old COVID creativity bird feeder they're sitting on; the same one used by their parents years ago. What's intriguing is that the bird on the left trying to figure out how to eat their almond is clearly right-handed; most unusual for a parrot. Sulphur-crested cockatoos are said to be universally left-handed, king parrots have a recorded preference for being right-handed, and ground feeders like galahs which don't manipulate their food are ambidextrous!
There you have it — Millie was bulking up for the trials of brooding; not being greedy. She is forgiven.
Forgiveness is found only in a personal relationship with the risen Jesus Christ!!!
He died as your substitute, shedding His blood as your ultimate sacrifice...taking all the punishment and condemnation for your sin; and rising from the dead 3 days later... so that God can punish your sin, forgive you, and still remain a JUST God!!! But you must be willing to turn from your sinful lifestyle, and surrender by faith to Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior!! How could anyone reject, or not trust, a God who loves them that much??
Forgiveness is not foolishness. Forgiveness, at its core, is choosing to see your offender with different eyes.
By the way, how can we grace-recipients do anything less? Dare we ask God for grace when we refuse to give it? This is a huge issue in Scripture. Jesus was tough on sinners who refused to forgive other sinners. Remember his story in Matthew 18 about the servant, freshly forgiven a debt of millions, who refused to forgive a debt equal to a few dollars? He stirred the wrath of God: “You evil servant! I forgave you that tremendous debt. Shouldn’t you have mercy just as I had mercy on you?” (Matthew 18:32-33 NLT).
In the final sum, we give grace because we’ve been given grace. And we’ve been given grace, so we can freely give it. See your enemies as God’s child and revenge as God’s job.
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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Hannah More
A Colombian Kamentsá native, wearing a colorful feather headgear, takes part in the Carnival of Forgiveness, a traditional indigenous celebration in Sibundoy, Colombia. Clestrinye (“Carnaval del Perdón”) is a ritual ceremony kept for centuries in the Valley of Sibundoy in Putumayo (the Amazonian department of Colombia), a home to two closely allied indigenous groups, the Inga and Kamentsá. Although the festival has indigenous origins, the Catholic religion elements have been introduced and merged with the shamanistic tradition. Celebrating annually the collaboration, peace and unity between tribes, they believe that anyone who offended anyone may ask for forgiveness this day and all of them should grant pardons. © Jan Sochor Photography
A tragic event happened on my doorstep to folks I know..I ask you to keep all those involved in this tragic event in your thoughts and prayers....
Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which, despite their best intentions, people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply. He began by forgiving us. And he invites us all to forgive each other.You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
---Lewis B. Smedes
Believe in the Power of Foregiveness
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Jesus once told Peter to be ready to forgive “up to seventy-seven times.” (Matthew 18:21, 22) A true friend is quick to overlook minor failings. To illustrate: Some do not like eating raspberries because of their little seeds. Those who enjoy this fruit, however, do not notice the seeds. True friends are loved for their fine qualities; their minor faults are overlooked. Paul exhorted us: “Continue putting up with one another and forgiving one another freely.” (Colossians 3:13) Those who learn to be forgiving keep their friends.
Forgiving others for personal offenses does not mean that we are condoning or minimizing what they have done; neither does it mean letting others take unfair advantage of us. After all, when Jehovah forgives us, he is certainly not trivializing our sins, and he will never allow sinful humans to trample upon his mercy. (Hebrews 10:29) , forgiveness is defined as “the act of pardoning an offender; ceasing to feel resentment toward him because of his offense and giving up all claim to recompense." - plainly said just let it go....we all fall,we are all imperfect,we or someone else may say and do things sometimes that we wish never happened..but we need to just let it go..it's not worth us holding on to, it can rob us of our happiness. so i forgive................
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I am honored to have met Chum Mey, one of seven survivors of Tuol Sleng prison, a brutal location where the Khmer Rouge regime chained and tortured innocent Cambodians before sending them off to the Killing Fields. It is estimated that between 12,000 and 20,000 people died as a result of Tuol Sleng and the Killing Fields. Chum Mey has chosen to forgive his torturers rather than condemn them, stating "I consider them victims like me, because they had to follow other people's orders. How can I say I would have behaved any differently? Would I have had the strength to refuse to kill, if the penalty was my own death?" Despite his horrific prison ordeal, his eyes tell a different story of forgiveness, compassion, and understanding.
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“The Cross is not a Roman pole, but the wood on which God wrote his gospel”.
“La Croce non è un palo dei romani, ma il legno su cui Dio ha scritto il suo vangelo.
(Alda Merini)
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Good Friday is an anniversary which in Sicily acquires a cathartic meaning for those who are searching, not only photographically, for popular traditions (we find them widespread throughout Sicily), which are nothing other than a social, cultural event, which merge into a single past and present; from the web "popular traditions are a historical memory linked to customs and rituals that have given shape to the values and beliefs of that culture". Easter in Sicily can be a source of research, it can appear not without contradictions, citing the thoughts of that great Sicilian thinker Leonardo Sciascia, for him Sicily cannot be called Christian referring to the Sicilian festivals, at most it is only in appearance, in those properly pagan explosions tolerated by the Church; Sciascia addresses the topic as an introductory essay in the book "Religious celebrations in Sicily", illustrated with photographs of a young and still unknown Ferdinando Scianna, a book that did not fail to raise some controversy due to the Sicilian thinker's introductory note, thus being in open controversy with the sacredness of that popular Sicilian devotion (the book was criticized by the Holy See newspaper, the Osservatore Romano), Sciascia writes: “what is a religious festival in Sicily? It would be easy to answer that it is anything but a religious holiday. It is, first of all, an existential explosion; the explosion of the collective id, where the collectivity exists only at the level of the id. Since it is only during the celebration that the Sicilian emerges from his condition of a single man, which is the condition of his vigilant and painful superego, to find himself part of a class, of a class, of a city". Another Sicilian thinker, writer and poet, Gesualdo Bufalino, provides interesting indications on the meaning that Sicilians give to these traditional popular events, he says "during Easter every Sicilian feels not only a spectator, but an actor, first sorrowful and then exultant , for a Mystery that is its very existence. The time of the event is that of Spring, the season of metamorphosis, just as the very nature of the rite is metamorphic in which, as in a story from the Puppet Opera, the battle of Good against Evil is fought. Deception, Pain and Triumph, Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ are present."
In short, Easter in Sicily is a deeply felt anniversary throughout the island since ancient times, it has always had as its fulcrum the emotional participation of the people, with representations and processions which have become rites and traditions which unequivocally characterize numerous Sicilian centres, which they recall the most salient moments narrated in the Gospels and which recall the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, with processions formed by the various brotherhoods (sometimes with theatrical re-enactments) which have within them contents and symbols often coming from the Spanish domination, which took place in Sicily between the 16th and 17th centuries. This year, on the occasion of Good Friday I went to the pretty town of Licodia Eubea (in the province of Catania), I'll start by saying that in this procession a unique character comes to life in statue form that cannot be found anywhere else place in Sicily, it is called "Ciurciddu" (translated "Circello"), he pulls Christ with a rope tied around his neck while he carries the Cross, this bad character has a profound symbolic-allegorical meaning, he represents "the Evil that exists in the world, the refusal towards the Truth announced by Christ", causing him suffering by pulling him with the rope tied around his neck. The boys and men "carriers of the floats" gather together, preparing for the moment when, once the procession has begun, the "'a Giunta" will take place around 10:00 a.m., or rather the very painful "encounter" between Christ ( who carries the Cross, linked to Ciurciddu) and His Mother of Sorrows (with her heart pierced by a sword, an iconic image of Spanish origin), during the meeting "the bow or greeting takes place" between the two floats, it is the Greeting that Mother and Son do in one of the most characteristic moments of this procession. While the two vares are brought to an ancient church, another event takes place which strongly characterizes this tradition, the "auction of the Cross" takes place, the ability to carry the Cross, weighing 70 kg, on one's shoulder, up to Churc of Calvary (a long uphill journey to reach the upper part of the town), is put up for auction, the highest bidder wins this possibility, after which an extraordinary event occurs: the devotee who wins the auction is embraced by numerous villagers, with great transport and affection, this is because those who participate in the auction certainly do so out of devotion but also possibly because they have had someone in their family with more or less serious health problems, and this is why people hug them and encourage them by showing their closeness . In the afternoon the procession resumes, now the Christ is dead, he is in the vara with the Urn, and is called "'u Signuri' a cascia" (by which term means "the Lord in the coffin"), the two vare (the dead Christ and His Mother of Sorrows) are carried in procession up to the Church of Calvary, where the heavy and ancient Cross carried on the shoulder by the devotee was hoisted; here, even if Christ is dead, the Crucifixion takes place , the mystical moment is accompanied by ancient songs-lamentations by the singers of the SS association. Crucifix; subsequently Christ is placed from the Cross in the urn, and descends back into the center of the town, where in the church of the Capuchin Fathers the devout people "make peace with the Lord", an act of reconciliation and request for forgiveness before the figure of Christ Died. Subsequently, late in the evening, Christ and his Mother are led into the Mother Church.
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Il Venerdì Santo è una ricorrenza che in Sicilia acquista un significato catartico per chi è alla ricerca, non solo fotografica, delle tradizioni popolari (le troviamo diffuse in tutta la Sicilia), che altro non sono che un evento sociale, culturale, che fondono in un tutt’uno passato e presente; dal web “le tradizioni popolari sono una memoria storica legata ad usanze e ritualità che hanno dato forma ai valori e alle credenze di quella cultura”. La Pasqua in Sicilia può essere fonte di ricerca, essa può apparire non priva di contraddizioni, citando il pensiero di quel grande pensatore Siciliano che fu Leonardo Sciascia, per lui la Sicilia non può dirsi cristiana riferendosi alle feste Siciliane, al massimo lo è solo in apparenza, in quelle esplosioni propriamente pagane, tollerate dalla Chiesa; Sciascia affronta l’argomento come saggio introduttivo nel libro “Feste religiose in Sicilia”, illustrato con fotografie di un giovane ed ancora sconosciuto Ferdinando Scianna, libro che non mancò di sollevare qualche polemica per la nota introduttiva del pensatore Siciliano, essendo così in aperta polemica con la sacralità di quella devozione popolare Siciliana (il libro fu oggetto di una stroncatura da parte del quotidiano della Santa Sede, l’Osservatore Romano), Sciascia scrive: “che cos’ è una festa religiosa in Sicilia? Sarebbe facile rispondere che è tutto, tranne che una festa religiosa. E’, innanzi tutto, un’esplosione esistenziale; l’esplosione dell’es collettivo, dove la collettività esiste soltanto a livello dell’es. Poiché e soltanto nella festa che il siciliano esce dalla sua condizione di uomo solo, che è poi la condizione del suo vigile e doloroso super io, per ritrovarsi parte di un ceto, di una classe, di una città ”. Altro pensatore, scrittore e poeta Siciliano, Gesualdo Bufalino, fornisce indicazioni interessanti sul senso che i Siciliani danno a questi eventi popolari tradizionali, egli dice “durante la Pasqua ogni siciliano si sente non solo uno spettatore, ma un attore, prima dolente e poi esultante, per un Mistero che è la sua stessa esistenza. Il tempo dell’evento è quello della Primavera, la stagione della metamorfosi, così come metamorfica è la natura stessa del rito nel quale, come in un racconto dell’Opera dei Pupi, si combatte la lotta del Bene contro il Male. Sono presenti l’Inganno, il Dolore e il Trionfo, la Passione, la Morte e la Resurrezione di Cristo”.
In breve, la Pasqua in Sicilia è una ricorrenza profondamente sentita in tutta l’isola fin dall’antichità, essa ha sempre avuto come fulcro la commossa partecipazione del popolo, con rappresentazioni e processioni divenuti riti e tradizioni che caratterizzano inequivocabilmente numerosissimi centri Siciliani, che rievocano i momenti più salienti narrati nei Vangeli e che ricordano la Passione, la Morte e la Resurrezione di Gesù Cristo, con cortei formati dalle varie confraternite (a volte con rievocazioni teatrali) che hanno in se contenuti e simbologie spesso provenienti dalla dominazione Spagnola, avvenuta in Sicilia tra il XVI ed il XVII secolo.
Quest’anno, in occasione del Venerdì Santo mi sono recato nel grazioso paese di Licodia Eubea (in provincia di Catania), inizio col dire che in questa processione prende vita, in forma statuaria, un personaggio unico che non si trova in nessun’altro luogo della Sicilia, si chiama “Ciurciddu” (tradotto “Circello”), egli tira con una corda legata al collo il Cristo mentre porta la Croce, questo tristo personaggio ha un profondo significato simbolico-allegorico, egli rappresenta “il Male che c’è nel mondo, il rifuto verso al Verità annunciata dal Cristo”, creandogli sofferenza tirandolo con la corda legata al collo. I ragazzi e gli uomini “portatori delle vare” si riuniscono tra loro, preparandosi al momento in cui, iniziata la processione, si realizzerà attorno alle ore 10:00 “ ‘a Giunta”, ovvero “l’incontro” dolorosissimo tra il Cristo (che porta la Croce, legato a Ciurciddu) e Sua Madre l’Addolorata (col cuore trafitto da una spada, immagine iconica di origine spagnola), durante l’incontro “avviene l’inchino o saluto” tra le due vare, è il Saluto che Madre e Figlio si fanno in uno dei momenti più caratteristici di questa processione. Mentre le due vare vengono portate in una antica chiesa, avviene un altro evento che caratterizza fortemente questa tradizione, ha luogo “l’asta della Croce”, il poter portare in spalla la Croce, del peso di 70 kg, fino alla Chiesa del Calvario (un lungo percorso in salita a raggiungere la parte alta del paese), viene messo all’asta, il maggiore offerente si aggiudica questa possibilità, dopodiché avviene un fatto straordinario: il devoto che si è aggiudicato l’asta viene abbracciato da numerosissimi paesani, con grande trasporto ed affetto, questo perché chi partecipa all’asta lo fa certamente per devozione ma anche possibilmente perché in famiglia ha avuto qualcuno con problemi più o meno gravi di salute, ed è per questo che le persone lo abbracciano e lo incoraggiano mostrandogli la loro vicinanza. Nel pomeriggio riprende la processione, adesso il Cristo è morto, si trova nella vara con l’Urna, ed è chiamato “ ‘ u Signuri ‘ a cascia” (col quale termine si intende “il Signore nella cassa da morto”), le due vare (il Cristo morto e Sua Madre l’Addolorata) vengono portate in processione fin sopra la Chiesa del Calvario, dove la pesante ed antica Croce portata in spalla dal devoto è stata issata, qui, anche se il Cristo è morto, avviene la Crocifissione, il mistico momento è accompagnato da antichi canti-lamentazioni ad opera dei cantori dell’associazione SS. Crocifisso; successivamente il Cristo viene deposto dalla Croce nell’urna, e ridiscende nel centro del paese, ove nella chiesa dei Padri Cappuccini il popolo dei devoti “ fa ‘ a Paci co’ Signuri”, atto di riconciliazione e richiesta di perdono innanzi la figura del Cristo Morto. Successivamente, in tarda serata, il Cristo e Sua Madre vengono condotti nella Chiesa Madre.
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Based off of "The Women Who Run With The Wolves" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. There is a time to release rightful and just anger and a time to forgive.
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Hannah More
Forgiveness is the intentional and voluntary process by which a victim undergoes a change in feelings and attitude regarding an offense, lets go of negative emotions such as vengefulness, with an increased ability to wish the offender well. Forgiveness is different from condoning (failing to see the action as wrong and in need of forgiveness), excusing (not holding the offender as responsible for the action), pardoning (granted by a representative of society, such as a judge), forgetting (removing awareness of the offense from consciousness), and reconciliation (restoration of a relationship).