Forgiveness

Forgiveness is a sinless form of revenge.

I’ve spoken to individuals and audiences all over Canada about the great miracle that forgiveness is meant to deliver in our lives. The last session I performed stirred me to write this post.

I’ve always said that forgiveness is a sinless form of revenge. There was a time in my life when I was tortured with the wrong concept of forgiveness. I mistakenly thought, it meant that I had to befriend, accept or condone the offender on some level. Well, that concept was too difficult for me and as a result I ended up confused between unhealthy hate and being taken advantage of. Basically, I re-victimized myself because I was ignorant about the power of forgiveness.

I didn’t know that God our Creator does not want us to befriend, accept, or condone our offenders, in any way. My Catholic upbringing gave me mixed messages; that hate was bad and being a martyr to pain was good. Hate and anger is what many of us haven’t learned enough about in many organized religions. Many years of life trials and spiritual development brought me to the understanding that hate and anger are indeed virtues given to us by God. They are emotional reactions to toxic, spiritual interruption. In fact, we’re created to hate inequity. I’ve always said, that light and dark, are like oil and water, they don’t mix. In human form, they don’t like or compliment one another and they’re not suppose to. But exploitation or misuse of any good thing can consume and destroy us. Thus, the management of hate and anger is all about transforming them into conviction and passion. When you do this, you create a spiritual position, for yourself. In this position you have developed an ability to discern who your predators really are and what your true offenses really are. Offense is different for different people, so you can’t measure the nature of what offends you, the way other people measure theirs.

Forgiveness is a celestial-power, given to us all. The fact is, that every second, minute and day, that we remain stuck in unforgiveness, we are actually allowing ourselves to be re-offended by the same predator and trauma. I have often heard the quote, “Un-forgiveness is like pouring Miracle Grow on a poisonous plant.” You see, inside of us, certain cells retain memory of numerous upsetting and traumatic events and unless we clear those memories, our cells become infected with a very toxic energy. What this does, is make us sick. I am confident that the disease, cancer, is stimulated by the inability to clear. In fact, I tell people all the time that they have two weeks to clear with someone or something before this dangerous infection starts to manifest inside of you. It will enter your body and mind and eventually attack your quality of life and spiritual destiny. 

Forgiveness is one of the most powerful forms of clearing. Native Americans have always known this. One of the very many levels to accomplish to become a regarded Pipe-carrier, in our Mi’kmaq culture, is indeed the very mastery of forgiveness. It’s an extremely hard and complicated thing to accomplish. Many Pipe-carriers I’ve known, have been asked to forgive 1,000 people and thoroughly. It’s easier than you might think, though, and so powerful. We have two ways to do it; 1) we can manage to forgive the person created by God but NOT the offense; or 2) we can forgive the good intention, but NOT the offender. As a result, we derive celestial power, in our own lives.

Forgiveness is a sinless form of revenge because it is the power to free from the chains and binds that a predator or trauma has over you. All forgiveness calls you to do, is to clear yourself from being hostage. There is no more to it. You don’t befriend the predator or condone the act. You just release the predator and/or trauma from your consciousness. Forgiveness is the ability to kick iniquity out of your inner space and restore your life with all the awesome blessings God has stored for you.

~Chief Liz LaSaga

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