One of my teachers had each one of us bring a clear plastic bag and a sack of potatoes.For every person we’d refuse to forgive in our life experience we were told to choose apotato,write on it the name and date and put it in the plastic bag.Some of our bags as you can imagine,were quite heavy.We were then told to carry this bag with us everywhere for one week,putting it beside our bed at night,on the car seat when driving,next to our desk at work. The hassle of lugging this around with us made it clear what a weight we were carrying spiritually and how we had to pay attention to it allthe time to not forget and keep leaving it in embarrassing places.Naturally, the condition of thepotatoes deteriorated to a nasty slime.This was a great metaphor for the price we pay for keeping our pain and heavy negativity!Too often we think of forgiveness as a gift to the other person and it clearly is for ourselves! So the next time you decide you can’t forgive someone ask yourself.. isn’t your sack heavily full enough? Gud am. And have a good
Posted on: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 07:25:39 +0000
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