Revelation of Forgiveness

"Forgive:
To cease to feel resentment against, on account
of wrong committed; to give up claim to requital
from or retribution upon (an offender); to
absolve; to pardon; --said of the person
offending."
-1913 Webster

Pain caused from maltreatment is a premise for forgiveness. And let us not be naive about the magnitude of the glory of the Decision to turn away from pain and a deep desire for revenge and to accept the nauseating injustice done to one's own flesh and soul. Neither are the emotions involved in this inner battle for the soul to be downplayed, as they can be likened to the powers of nature if one's body were the Earth. Wherefore the Decision is to be likened to the calming of a storm, the convincing of a flood to retreat and the dispersing of the winds of every hurricane: everything within the Earth is closely interrelated wherefore one must assume and retain control over every element within oneself to calm the many raging storms and to draw up again the lines for every wild drop of water in the floods.

Neither must the beauty of the Decision to relinquish one's right to revenge, the ensuing rainbow and the tranquility of great grassy plains drying in the sun, be forgotten. For in making this Decision one not only exonerates the Offender from the curse of the sin commited against oneself, one also frees one's own Earth from a curse of die-hard storms resulting from nature not being in equilibrium. It is fair to say that one holds the fate of two lives when faced with the Decision.

Another beauty, which is worthy of meditation, is how forgiveness enables closure in regards to the haunted memory of the Offender.

Mercy, people, and the appreciation of it, is beautiful.