Forgiveness

Forgiveness

...And how I lost me and you lost you

What are these voices outside love's open door

Make us throw off our contentment

and beg for something more?

I'm learning to live without you now

But I miss you sometimes

The more I know, the less I understand

All the things I thought I knew, I'm learning again

I've been tryin' to get downto the heart of the matter

But my will gets weak

and my thoughts seem to scatter

But I think it's about...forgiveness

Forgiveness

Even if, even if you don't love me anymore

Ah...these times are so uncertain

There's a yearning undefinedand people filled with rage

We all need a little tenderness

How can love survive in such a graceless age?

Ah...the trust and self-assurance that lead to happiness

They're the very things - we kill I guess...

Ohh pride and competition

cannot fill these empty arms

And the work I put between us

you know it doesn't keep me warmI

'm learning to live without you now

But I miss you, baby

And the more I know, the less I understand

All the things I thought I'd figured outI have to learn again

I've been trying to get downto the heart of the matter

But everything changes

and my friends seem to scatter

But I think it's about...forgiveness

Forgiveness

Even if, even if, you don't love me anymoreT

here are people in your life who've come and goneT

hey let you down, you know they hurt your prideY

ou better put it all behind you baby; cause' life goes on

If you keep carryin' that anger, it'll eat you up inside, baby

I've been trying to get downto the heart of the matter

But my will gets weakand my thoughts seem to scatter

But I think it's about forgiveness

Forgiveness

Even if, even if you don't love me

I've been tryin' to get down

to the heart of the matter

Because the flesh will get weakand the ashes will scatter

So I'm thinkin' about forgiveness

Forgiveness

Even if, even if, you don't love me...

Forgiveness (yeah)

Forgiveness (baby)

Forgiveness (ohh)

Forgiveness (ahh yeaaahhh)

Forgiveness (ohh)

Forgiveness

Even if, you don't love me anymore...~Don Henley

I am thinking about what a gift it is to forgive. Whether the other person knows it or not. It is unimportant because I am thinking that forgiveness is a gift that we give to ourselves. To move on. To move forward. Unimportant that the forgiveness travels to that other person because it is a release for us to let go of the burden of anger. To let go of the disappointment. Feeling let down. Fear that is bottled up inside that keeps us from being the whole and contented person we were blessed to be. Our inheritence from God almighty.

Bliss, contentment, joy and complete happiness are extinguished by fear. Disappoinment. Anger.

Happiness, joy, contentment found in the release. In the forgiveness. Forgiveness of yourself first. No longer the fool. The manipulated. The victim.

Forgiveness knowing you did the best you could at the time. You know better now. You will do better now.

Forgiveness for the manipulator. The predator. The one who sleeps off the Goldschlager. Then. More than likely now.

He did the best he could at the time. Who knows if he knows better now? It is unimportant.

Release. Let go. Grow.

Forgiveness. The gift you give to yourself.

Forgive.

Release.

Life.

The gift.