I Can No Longer Stand in the Sun

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  TortillasAreNotBiceps

  "Could a man ever hear my secrets and say I am forgiven?" - Could you ever hear your secrets and say you are forgiven? No man's forgiveness can unseat your own unwillingness to forgive yourself.

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  TortillasAreNotBiceps

  Hard swallow. How beautiful and touching this is, K. I wonder if the devil is the untapped part of us that we often refuse to reach for when love requires us to forgive ourselves. Perhaps there is an invocation required of us as a means of tapping into the God in us as we learn to forgive ourselves. Therein lay the true God who oversees what we often fail to overcome as we slowly learn to love ourselves enough to forgive ourselves. God, after all, doesn't invoke us, rather it is we who must invoke God through a necessity of love and free will. We may not be able to stand in the sun, but the Son, so it is written, will always stand with us. more »

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    Kaytee

    ooh, that is so deep. I do think that it is love for ourselves that does help us forgive even those shadowy parts of ourselves. Sometimes we do need to invoke a higher power to get us to that love and forgiveness. It's a work in progress. I learned many years that forgiveness for ourselves or anybody else doesn't always come in all or nothing (complete forgiveness versus self loathing) instead it can be on a continuum. If I forgive 80% I can work on reaching 85% then 90%, etc. I think it is unhealthy and just bypassing and stuffing things if I just say yep I forgive I'm done. Sometimes it takes a little work and we acknowledge the 90% love and forgiveness and pledge to work on the other 10%. more »

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    TortillasAreNotBiceps

    Perhaps this is why life is indeed a journey and not an overnight express. We step closer to God and his wisdom as we slowly evolve into the masterpieces he has created us to be. Where would our strength come from, after all, if we went to bed broken only to arise perfected in a day? We stay the course and reach for the broken bits of ourselves that stray from the righteous path so as to gather them up that we might be able to resurrect our innocence and true nature. It seems we are born into perfect innocence only to lose pieces of ourselves as our egos develop and our esteems dwindle. Once the lessons are learned, we gather ourselves back up slowly over time and hopefully make our transitions to the next life as close to who our maker created us to be as humanly possible. All theory of course, but fun to consider. ;-) more »

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    Kaytee

    well here's to picking up all those jagged pieces and becoming whole again!

    LikeReply9 months ago