Pause ~ Forgiving the Thorn in my Flesh
FORGIVING THE THORN IN MY FLESH
Sharing by Mary
Imagine you are walking along the beach and you’ve been given the
opportunity to access your Inner Wisdom, the Voice for LOVE in you ~ the embodiment
of LOVE however that appears for you. Like meeting with a true friend and sipping
coffee on a rainy day, time disappearing as your conversation flows without boundaries.
Nothing is off-limits. A rare connection with someone you may have just encountered or
known for years ~ time is not of the essence. Knowing and being known is.
That’s a way of pausing to access Inner Wisdom. The other day I was
prompted to imagine sitting on a bench alongside LOVE ~ the presence of the One who
loves and knows me completely and does not judge. LOVE doesn’t mince words and
went straight to the core of an error in belief about myself that I didn’t fully realize I
was clinging to, and more importantly, that I was letting rule my daily life and drive me
into the despair caused by judging myself and judging others.
Then something wonderful happened!
Here is some of that conversation:
LOVE: So, what’s going on with you?
Me: I am fed up with people making mistakes!
LOVE: Mary, what do you expect to flow from the first mistake but a series of
mistakes? When people make mistakes it stings you, because the thorn hidden in
your flesh is that you are a failure, you are a mistake.
At this moment, the “secure” safe I keep inside of me that holds
unhelpful hidden beliefs and shame, that safe was unlocked.
I can no longer hide from LOVE’s knowing, LOVE’s desire to help and heal.
LOVE hit the nail on the head excavating a deep-rooted, yet
just beneath the surface of my awareness mistaken belief I hold about myself.
Me: Well, I feel that! This is the thorn in my flesh ~ that I am a failure. I’ve tried
removing this thorn on my own many times. I’ve tried everything to get rid of this
thorn!
LOVE: This is my job. Only truth can heal error. Let Me forgive you.
Me: You don’t want to forgive me.
LOVE: I am not forgiving you for being a failure. That is just another error in your
thinking. There is no truth in it. I am forgiving you because you think you are a
failure, not because you have in any way failed. It is in your accepting my forgiveness
that this thorn in your flesh will be removed.
Me: I do. I accept your forgiveness of my mistaken belief that I am a failure.
LOVE: No amount of “achievements” as you so call them in your world, could begin
to remedy one’s crucial need to accept LOVE’s forgiveness, to let LOVE forgive you
for all of those untrue~unloving beliefs about yourself. Be free of them.
Me: I find that I am willing to accept LOVE’s forgiveness. To lay this false belief and
judgment of who I am at the feet of LOVE. Maybe for the first time in my life, I
experienced This LOVE truly lifting my mistakes off of me, and I let LOVE see the
truth about me, which is that I am Pure LOVE, nothing less, nothing more.
I Pause, Step Back from the lies I believe about myself, Step Aside to welcome LOVE,
and truly accept forgiveness ~ receiving the truth about what LOVE says about me. I
will need to continue pausing to remember the truth of who I am and that LOVE IS
TRUTH. Such is why we are called to LOVE. In this practice, burdens~untruth are
lifted and only Peace remains.
What are the thorns in your flesh that you unknowingly treasure,
believe, and to which you are tethered?
Pause, and receive LOVE’s forgiveness for these mistaken beliefs.
LOVE’s forgiveness AND your accepting AND truly receiving
this forgiveness removes the thorns in your flesh.
Let them be removed.
Even in darkness, trusting This LOVE is with us, letting
This LOVE love us, will help us always and all ways.
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