Greetings Dear Reader,
We all have a history.
We have all heard the history of others.
I grew up in an era where they taught that Columbus was a great explorer
and that he discovered America. He did
demonstrate that the world was not flat.
He also demonstrated that one man can systematically destroy an entire
culture.
We all know that we get history from those in power at the time. We learn about what happened through the lens
of power and politics. What I think we fail
to see is that we do this on a lesser scale as well. Our opinions on the history of others become
our view of them depending on the winds of favor and family. We see others through the eyes of their past,
often denying them a different future.
Perhaps one of the reasons we are required to forgive daily
is so that we do not carry another’s failures into a new day. Perhaps our issues with anger, resentment,
and relationships all have tendrils into the current day because we fail to let the
past be passed and give it new life. We
allow history to be the determiner of the present and even reach into the
future.
We all have reason to hold over hurts and harm that others
have visited upon us. We are, however, commanded
to love and forgive every single day. We
are required to leave that which is past where it is and moved forward in
kindness, mercy, and grace. Columbus had
been one of my heroes as a boy. I had to
work through my anger at what he had done and allowed to be done. I had to forgive and realize that all of our
resentment at things past serves only to harm today.
Whether it is global or local, we cannot undo what has been
done and we need to allow others the dry ground to change. We need to let love and grace own the present
at every turn. Love has the power to
overcome anything if we allow it.
Allowing may need to be active, intentional. We have to demonstrate our love toward others
by holding nothing against them and allowing them to change.
No matter how hard we wish it, we cannot undo the past. We can, however, see that today includes the
hope that we and others can change for the better Dear Reader. Further, there is nothing gained by failing
to forgive the dead. That can only harm
us and it will not reach them, for they can no longer change. Any power they have over us is the power we give
them today. If this is true, perhaps it
is time for us to change.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every
writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a homeowner.
He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store.”
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