Love and forgive yourself

I know I haven’t been writing much for awhile but hopefully you’ll see more.

I was thinking today about the fact that we really do need to love ourselves and forgive ourselves for things we’ve said or done. In fact I was thinking that we have great authority for doing this. The Bible makes it so clear that we are to love and forgive our neighbor, and Jesus tells us this includes even our enemies. If we have the command to love others and forgive them then it only makes sense that we MUST also love ourselves and forgive ourselves.

What really hit me today is that this is a demand of God that we do this. Therefore heartily love yourself and forgive yourself today, knowing that you have divine authority to do this. And the best way to do this is to remind yourself that you are the pure and perfect child of God and that anything you might have said or done that you don’t like is the material sense or false sense of yourself, and you have every right to let go of that and not identify with it.

Ahhhhh . . . that feels good.

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