The importance of forgiveness and love

Hello everyone,

I hope all is well and you're having a good day.  I'm back and excited about sharing daily inspirations to everyone.  Over the past month, I've been thinking about life in how precious it is and how we have to cherish each and every moment.  Let's take time out and thank God for the many blessings that He so graciously gives to us each day.

As I meditated on life and appreciated God's grace, I realized how important it is to forgive and love. God has blessed us with His Divine Mercy and I had to  reflect on His goodness and thank Him for His grace.  Through all of this, I realized how important it is to forgive our neighbor because this life is all about giving hope and helping one another.  We all have faults and when we forgive, we show others Jesus and we give him or her a purpose to still want to be here. The important thing to remember about forgiveness is when we forgive, most of the time it helps us more than the person we're forgiving because when we don't forgive, our hearts get hard and we lose focus of the mission set by God.  People are really going through some things and we are too so let's be humbled and know that it's critical that we forgive to benefit all.  Some people spend their entire life, not forgiving and sometimes they don't know how, don't have the courage or just in a messed up space in their lives.  This is why we need to forgive to lend a helping hand even if we get the short end of the stick just do it and it will definitely make a difference in the world that we live in today.  For example, something happened in my life to someone close to me and they thought my intentions and actions were not good, so they stop speaking to me and thought I was a bad person.  I gave it some time because sometimes it's a time and place to do things.  After I spoke my peace, I let time heal.  They still didn't want to be involved in my life so what I did was opened the door again for us to communicate.  It really wasn't my fault but time allowed them to realize that but they knew the love was still there.  I was consistent to keep the communication open and eventually, they realize I was just loving and today we're in a better place.  What I'm saying is God can change situations and bring goodness out of everything.  I think we have a hard time forgiving sometimes because of our lack of faith and when we don't forgive we're condemning the other person and saying we don't have hope for that person.  Forgiveness is really an act of hope and when we do it, we set that person free from judgement but it's not only the other person who's being free it's also us.

Forgiveness is an act of love so when we forgive, we love so it's very important that we forgive and love because our mission is to be a disciple so think about this message and when we feel like we've been mistreated wrong, take advantage of the opportunity and show the world Jesus love.

​Kevin LeVar - A Heart That Forgives - YouTube

Amen and Thank you Lord.