To be at peace with ourselves it is essential to not just forgive others, but ourselves as well!
Forgiveness. Yeah it's hard, but this might help.
Posted by My Soul Delighteth on Thursday, May 31, 2018
Forgiveness is hard. I’ve met a lot of people that, well, they weren’t the nicest people. But the worst part about forgiveness is that sometimes we have to forgive ourselves. There’s this one scripture in Doctrine and Covenants that talks about where the Lord requires that he can choose which person to forgive himself, but it is required of us to forgive all men. When he says, “All men,” that just doesn’t mean our neighbors, strangers who did us wrong, neighbors who did us wrong, friends, family, whatever type of thing. But it also, we need to forgive ourselves.
A couple weeks ago I took one of my boys, we took him to this therapy session. The therapist was really cool, where he taught us something very, very valuable of how we can forgive. This is the statement that he taught us. He goes, “I,” and say your name. So, “I, Tyler, forgive Tyler for not being so smart in some of the decisions that I’ve made,” or whatever. Then, “I release you to your higher good.” I actually changed that last part too, “I release you to my Savior.” One of the cool things about that is that I’ve been an idiot in a lot of many different ways. I mean, I even remember in high school where I was just … I could’ve done better.
What it comes down to is that even though I could’ve done better, there are still things that I’ve carried from even from a young age, of things I’ve done, I wasn’t very smart at doing. What I decided to do was, when I thought of those instances, I actually decided to forgive myself. I did exactly what I told you, of, “I, Tyler, forgive Tyler for being a …” Man, there’s a lot of things. But the thing is, I don’t go back to that forgiveness, because I’ve already forgiven myself for it.
That also doesn’t just work for myself, but if somebody I feel like did something to me, or I didn’t agree with or whatever, and I can just say, “I, Tyler, forgive.” I just go home. I forgive. “I, Tyler, forgive that driver who cut me off and I release you to my Savior.” Every time that I would say something like that, or need to forgive somebody, that’s the statement I would say because we already give enough time to negativeness all around us. It’s a time where we need to start letting go. I hope you enjoyed. We’ll talk to you next time. Bye.