TWENTY-EIGHT: Forgiveness
“Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven – for she loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.” Luke 7:47
October has been a month of praying for forgiveness, asking for forgiveness and learning how to forgive as well. A lesson that God taught me time and time again in life, yet after the many trials, it’s something I still find so hard for my practical mind to accept.
Forgiveness; believing that God truly changes people in His time, trusting in the person standing before me right now and nothing else, accepting what the past was because the past is what develops a person, realizing the things i need to be forgiven for, and knowing that i am a person that needs to be forgiven as well. And as I learn to forgive, that’s when i will be forgiven as well.
I learnt this lesson the hard way once again this time, having to bow down in front of my own pride and to abandon my anger and realistic nature. And when I put all those aside, I realised that I am a person who needs to ask for forgiveness as well.
Things that were accepted of me out of love naturally and the times he has been so patient and so supportive, the times when he was there when I needed comfort, the times when he smiled though he was crying and hurting inside just to see my smile and hear my laughters, the times when he was tired, but would talk to me until i fall asleep or cook for me just so I could have a little more rest, the times when he would wake up early just to drive me to school, the times when he would carry things for me though he is exhausted and ill. This person who never thought he’d ever do such things, gave it all out of the love he has for one girl.
One week; was the time it took for me to realise all these and to come to terms with what reality was. Looking through our memories, looking back at the blessings we prayed so hard for, remembering the times we spent and realizing how much it took for us to be together made the impossibility of forgiveness melt into what is natural. And this is when “love” truly begins.
Hun; if you’re reading this, I’m truly thankful for a blessing like you. For forgiving this girl here without a word from the start till the end. Because of you, I learnt what forgiving is all about. Because of the past, I learnt of the trueness of your love. And because of all that we’ve gone through, I learnt that for us both to be still here, it’s God’s grace and it’s our love.
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