Greetings Dear Reader,
When my sister and I were at the beach many years ago, she
convinced dad to let her bury him in the sand.
They dug out a shallow ditch and he lay down in it. She began to pour buckets of sand on him. The light wind kept blowing the sand
away. Dad mentioned that it was because
the sand was too dry.
Discarding the bucket, my seven-year-old sister tried to
carry the ocean water with her hands to wet down the sand on dad. I took great joy in watching her try to
transport the water in her hands without losing it all before she got to him. She could not.
He suggested that she use her bucket. She stubbornly insisted, “I can carry
it. I can carry it.” She could not and quickly became frustrated
at trying to carry the water. She also refused
to let go of the belief that she could. If
you have ever tried to carry water in your hands, you know that it is impossible
to maintain over long distance.
There are so many things we try to carry that are impossible
to carry. It takes so much energy and
our hands are not able to hold them all. We cannot carry resentment, anger, and
hurt without becoming frustrated at what it takes to maintain it. If we ponder the people over whom we hold
these things, we feel tired from the effort.
Their offenses have become part of us.
We lack peace when we think of them.
We are simply not designed to maintain the offenses that we carry.
We think that forgiveness is impossible. We may wish to hold our anger and
bitterness. That is what is impossible. That is the thing we cannot carry. It is the idea that we must and can forgive
others that makes the impossible possible.
We can become people who do not carry offenses if we choose it.
We are people who are designed to do the impossible. There are, however, things we are designed
not to make possible. We are not
designed to carry offenses, anger, resentment, and hurt. I am not able to turn carrying them into something
good. It is, therefore, necessary for me
to stop trying.
I must not work to make carrying or holding offenses possible. It is like trying to carry water in our hands
for a distance. We are simply not designed
for it. We must let go of these things
Dear Reader. We can then fill our empty
hands and hearts with something better. We
will look at that tomorrow.
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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