Saturday, August 20, 2005

Dynamic Forgiveness

So today at church the pastor talked about Dynamic Forgiveness. One thing that got me is that he said we can't just forgive the person in our heart (of course that is a start) we have to physically tell them if it is possible. Anyway that whole sermon moved me.

Then when I was checking one of my old e-mail addresses I found this. It moved me because I found myself dealing with several of these situations. So here it is:

Have you ever wondered which hurts the most?
Saying something and wishing you hadn't? Or Saying nothing and wishing you had?
I guess the most important things are the hardest things to say.
Don't be afraid to tell someone you love them. If you do, they might break your heart...If you don't, you might break theirs.
Have u ever decided not 2 become a couple because you were so afraid of losing what you already had with that person?
Your heart decides whom it likes and whom it doesn't. You can't tell your heart what to do.
It does it on its own...When you least suspect it, or even when you don't want it to.
Have you ever wanted to love someone with everything you had, but that other person was too afraid to let you?
Too many of us stay walled up because we are too afraid to care too much...For fear that the other person does not care as much, or even at all.
Have you ever denied your feelings for someone because your fear of rejection was too hard to handle?
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger. Life is all about risks and it requires you to jump.
Don't be a person who has to look back and wonder what they would have done, or could have had.
* What would you do if every time you fell in love you had to say good-bye?
*What would you do if every time you wanted someone they would never be there?
*What would you do if your best friend died tomorrow and you never got to tell them how you felt? (even if it is that you don't care anymore)
*What would you do if you loved someone more than ever and you couldn't have them?
*What would you do if you never got the chance to say I am friends with all of my family and they know I love them?
*You might be best friends one year, pretty good friends the next year, don't talk that often the next, and don't want to talk at all the year after that. So, I just wanted to say, even if I never talk to you again in my life, you are special to me and you have made a difference in my life. Let old friends know you haven't forgotten them, and tell new friends you never will.

Okay so I know this was long but it says almost everything on my heart I just had to include it. If you are my friend know that I love you and always will. Remember just because love is blind you don't have to be. ;')

1 comment:

Raquel said...

wow, that was quite on point. i must say that i'm a witness. taking a chance to love someone is like the scariest thing in the world, but it can also be the most rewarding. with nothing to lose and the world to gain...i'd say those are great odds.