it may surprise some to know that hearing & reciting the Lord’s Prayer is one of my favorite parts of being in church …
as a kid, my mind would turn the word “trespass” over in different directions as if i were inspecting a rock held in my hands, the word repeating even well after the congregation had moved on …
monday, as i received reiki & craniosacral therapy, two lines from the Lord’s Prayer kept repeating in my mind … & it brought up a quite a bit for me throughout the day …
“trespass” still strikes me differently than any others within prayer; perhaps its message is a reminder for me to do the work of forgiveness, for in forgiving others we, too, are released from the judgment we’ve held against others …
for to forgive is to be unburdened of the suffering (the 2nd dart in buddhism*) that we’ve held onto from the pain of what has (often long ago) passed … so to forgive is to be forgiven
in doing work around forgiveness, i find that the hardest person to forgive is myself…
forgiveness: a worthy practice, one which is far easier said than done …
*in buddhism, the 1st dart is the pain from where life “hits us,” the 2nd dart is the suffering we endure from our own reactions to the 1st dart … pain happens, suffering is optional. holding onto unforgiveness is suffering …
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