It’s About Forgiveness

October 22, 2018

I really enjoyed the forgiveness quotes for September because this is an area that I am currently working on in my life.

If you are familiar with Don Henley’s song “The Heart of theMatter”, then you know how beautifully written it is. Not only is itbeautifully written, but also has a very powerful message. I have the remake by India Arie on myplaylist and anytime that song plays I have to put it on repeat. It has been my saving grace along withself-reflection and prayer. This songand these quotes help me strive to continue this journey no matter how I feelor my heart aches. I want to share withyou some of the meaningful words of the song:

“I’m learning to live without you now

But I miss you sometimes

The more I know, the less I understand

All the things I thought I knew, I’m learning them again

I’ve been trying to get down

To the heart of the matter

But my will gets weak

And my thoughts seem to scatter

But I think it’s about forgiveness

Forgiveness

Even if, even if you don’t love me anymore”

When the person you love moves on like you didn’t matter and things did not go down right and you’re left picking up the pieces of your broken heart, you go through different emotions. You try to be strong, but as the song says your will gets weak and you’re back to where you started.

“There are people in your life

Who’ve come and gone

They let you down

You know they’ve hurt your pride

You better put it all behind you baby

‘Cause life goes on

You’ll keep carrying’ that anger

It’ll eat you up inside baby”

Forgiveness is truly for you, you can’t let the anger build inside of you because it will only harm you in the end.

As I shared before about some things that I was going through, and a relationship ending, I recently asked this person for forgiveness because I’m not perfect either and a part of my healing process is asking for forgiveness if I’ve wronged anyone. Someone asked if it was said back to me, and I replied it’s not about him, it’s about my healing.

My favorite forgiveness quote:

Forgiveness is not easy. It hurts and sometimes you may have to start over in the process because you become angry again. The important thing is to keep forgiving, processing, and moving forward. Forgiveness is for you and it gives you your inner peace.

Here is the recap of the forgiveness quotes.

Week One: