One of the most ghastly and gruesome and yet necessary tasks ever seen by man is performed by researchers who examine cadavers by slicing extremely thin layers of cell tissue from the top of the body down to the feet. By freezing the corpse, these scientist use a machine that produces paper thin layers that may be observed through a microscope. Their hope is that certain functions, malfunctions or maladies may be discovered. Just watching one of these processes is enough to make one's stomach turn and is much like seeing road kill to the soul. Most know of what the writer speaks. They look, grimace and look away, but have to look again to be grossed out one more time. Anyway, forgiveness is much like this.
When a person has been offended, wronged, and damaged by another, what he or she does with the damage has a direct relationship to the soul. Each offense carries with it a slicing device that is much like the one describe above only this one cuts inside and is invisible. Another wrong cuts another portion, and another umbrage severs another layer. Piece by piece and sheet by sheet a person who once was whole inside begins to disappear. How ever does one deal with such an atrocious device? How does a person shut off and dismantle such a destructive tool? Forgive.
A wise older man once said, “What anybody does doesn't have to take anything away from me unless I let it. If I forgive, nothing more is taken away, and since the person has already damaged me, I'm not giving them anything more.” Forgiveness shuts down the machine. Forgiveness stops the power. Forgiveness allows a person to stay whole. One wonders, if an examination of the reader could be made, how much soul would be left to observe, or has someone else been given the power to take it away slice by slice and layer by layer? Until tomorrow...Why Say More?
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