FORGIVENESS

The premise of The Little Soul and the Sun, by Neale Donald Walsch is that, prior to entering into this lifetime, we negotiated and agreed with other angels, or souls, that we would participate in each other’s lives.  We agreed to provide the conditions that are necessary for you to respond in the God-like attribute you have chosen to bring into the world.  In return, you will provide that same service to us.  In that manner, we ensure that we have the opportunity to display God’s love, forgiveness, kindness, etc. to others during our lifetimes.  Using film terminology, we have agreed to play “the heavy” for someone else at one point, just as they have agreed to do that for us or someone else has.

 

We have chosen, as angels, each of us, to come into this life to help each other heal.  We would not be able to provide that service for each other if we all behaved as angels.  However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that we display the trait that we came here to provide either. 

 

Driving in the Los Angeles area serves us well.  Are we able to remember when we’re cut off in traffic, that the angel in the other vehicle is giving us an opportunity?  We are far more likely to remark, “He did that on purpose!  She deliberately cut in from of me and then slowed down!”, than we are to remember that these “angels” are here to fulfill their end of the contract and to allow us to learn to forgive.

 

Or that homeless person that we must walk past on our way to work each morning – he smells so bad and we would prefer that he sit on someone else’s street or, better yet, take a bath, get a job, or something - other than remind us of his presence.  Do we remember that he agreed to help us learn to love unconditionally, not just our family members which, God knows, is hard enough some days, but each and every other living being?

 

In the book God is quoted as saying, “I have sent you nothing but angels.”  Unfortunately the reality is that those angels don’t look like angels to us.  They don’t even look or act like we believe that humans should, much less angels!  It would be so much easier to love them all if they talked like us, looked like us, had the same values, the same sense of responsibility. 

 

Conversely, to reneg, or to interfere by "saving" someone from their lessons, you deny them their unique place in God's plan for the evolution of manking.  As a parent, it is tempting to try and "save" your children fromhurt and pain. When our children hurt, we hurt--we attempt to make the hurt go away by distracting them from it or by providing them with something fun to :make up for it".  The truth is, if we succeed, we break the contract that they have made with that other angel thereby denying them the chance to fulfill the contract they made, to potentially learn the lesson to which they agreed, and to attain grace.

 

 

 Beth Outtrim