Love Follows Forgiveness

For those who were at service on Sunday, April 14, 2013, a few bullet points to jog your memory.

To read the complete text of "Love Follows Forgiveness" click here.

• Beyond all the goals and aspirations any one of us might have in the world, do you think our deepest interests are really separate, unique and individual?  I don’t.

•  We all share one common interest: internal peace.

•  Internal peace is found through knowing and expressing the Love of God.

•  Once we recognize we all share one common interest, how could we hate, judge, or justify our anger?

•  Distress is the inseparable partner of hate, anger, fear, guilt, etc.  When we are in distress we are maintaining barriers to the awareness (and expression) of Love’s Presence.

•  Forgiveness dissolves all these barriers allowing us to remember the experience of Love. Love follows forgiveness.

•  Charles Fillmore, co-founder of Unity, defines forgiveness as, “A process of giving up the false for the real.”  Perhaps this definition could restated as, “Giving up the idea of finding peace in the temporary for the eternal.”

•  Mr. Fillmore also said, “It is through forgiveness that true spiritual healing is accomplished.”

•   “Forgiveness is not for other people. It is for our ourselves so we can heal and move on.”

•  Forgiveness is the key that opens that Gates of Heaven for us.