Empathy can change the world, by changing you!

THE REASONING OF TRUE FORGIVNESS

Empathy and forgiveness the same thing to me. To have empathy is to be able to feel and think from another’s perspective. To forgive is not to pardon a mistake. If that were true, it would involve unfair judgment, dependent upon one’s own view, one’s unique perspective, or even mood for that day. No, forgiveness is truly divine because it does not and cannot involve a judgment as to whether or not something is worthy to be overlooked. It is to understand the behavior as the acting out of that person’s fear and pain. Jesus did not condone a ‘sinners’ behavior, telling them what they did or did not do was ‘ok’ and go right ahead and continue. I would imagine Jesus telling the person in error that doing what they were doing was not beneficial to their own, or anyone’s life, but all that needed to be changed in this situation was their mind. A mind without fear, produces actions that are loving. For to have judgment produces fear and guilt. Hold no grievance, made no judgment and you have no fear. Jesus was simply able to empathize with all of mankind. Simply? Did I say that? It is not so simple as we all know.

COME TOGETHER
This morning on my bike ride the song ‘Come Together’ came to me, by the Beatles. I am not a Beatles fan. I don’t even care for that song. And, I really have no idea what it is actually about. But, the thought occurred to me after that song played out in my head, that the saving of all mankind is when we put the puzzle back to together again, realizing we are all pieces of the same mind. So, the drug addict, the prostitute, the saint, the mother, the child, even all the murderers, and the rapists, the scientists, the teachers, the whole world of personalities…..are split off pieces of ourselves. You are not a separate you. You are part of me, and I am part of you, but we are acting out like little individual egos; some of us thinking we are ‘better’ or more healthy than others. Some of us nicer, kinder, more evil. But we aren’t . The healing of one mind will take the coming together of all minds. There is no room for judgment when it is yourself you are attempting to put back together in one piece.

There is nothing new under the sun. This phrase has new meaning for me, because there is nothing, no emotion, not a thought in your mind or mine that has not been felt collectively by all of mankind. So let’s get off our high horses, and ‘come together’ once and for all. Healing is a joint effort which occurs one way; forgiveness. There is no other way.

Diane L. Perretto