Now, dear ones, when we say forgiveness, we mean something you do for yourself. Most people mean forgiveness as something they do for someone else. They give their forgiveness to them from on high. And expect to receive thanks in return. “I forgive you. I am so wonderful. So powerful, so safe, that I forgive you.”
If you wait to be in that position, you are wasting time that others may not have. Forgiveness is the act, ultimate, of humility. It says: “You who hurt me. I bow before you. I offer you forgiveness. Please accept. Whether you accept or not, I offer to you.”
How is it possible to be in a state like that when one has been harmed? And harmed severely. We do not for a moment mitigate or minimize the harm that one person causes to another. Well, the answer is you are enslaved by that harm only to the extent to which you refuse to release emotion about it.
In order to protect mother and father, the child will refuse to release all the rage they feel toward them. Their love, they feel calls them to withhold it. And instead of rage what comes out is a sickening, sickly tar called anger.
Anger is withholding rage. It is holding back God’s love. Anger is an inhibition and a refusal to heal. That is why it hurts. You have all been hurt by anger because when someone is angry with you, they are squeezing down so hard on the divine energy that they are shooting off sparks, like the rivets are popping, and you get hit with them. Anger makes everyone afraid.
But rage is not frightening to anyone. You know the difference if you have ever loved someone who is enraged. You know that what they were doing was for their own good. Feeling a feeling that made you feel happy for them.
God sends rage to you to purify your life. You shouldn’t think that rage is unhelpful because it’s a gift from God just like food is a gift from God. Rage is the counterpart of anger. Grief is the divine counterpart of sadness. And terror is the divine counterpart of fear.