tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10995142.post4406470914362727129..comments2023-10-16T07:17:33.136-04:00Comments on Linda's Notebook: "CATS" (Cover-up All Those Secrets)Linda J. Meikle (Former Linda Cash)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16338237643711239397noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10995142.post-42386384917879194042007-04-21T22:52:00.000-04:002007-04-21T22:52:00.000-04:00Thank-you, Juanita. Yes, please feel free to post ...Thank-you, Juanita. Yes, please feel free to post to the SOS site. While we don't have many visitors there yet, we hope that site will prove to be positive and uplifting to more women as we get the information out. I'm also thinking of ways other women can add to the site itself.Linda J. Meikle (Former Linda Cash)https://www.blogger.com/profile/16338237643711239397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10995142.post-67478875622154145132007-04-20T12:43:00.000-04:002007-04-20T12:43:00.000-04:00With this being the day of mourning for Virginia T...With this being the day of mourning for Virginia Tech. I thought I would share this article. May we all find a way to be brave and forgive the unforgivable!<BR/><BR/><BR/>This Week's Heartfelt Blessing <BR/>FORGIVING THE UNFORGIVABLE<BR/><BR/>"In a way, forgiving is only for the brave. It is for those people who are willing to confront their pain, accept themselves as permanently changed, and make difficult choices. Countless individuals are satisfied to go on resenting and hating people who wrong them. They stew in their own inner poisons and even contaminate those around them. Forgivers, on the other hand, are not content to be stuck in a quagmire. They reject the possibility that the rest of their lives will be determined by the unjust and injurious acts of another person." — Beverly Flanigan <BR/>We have come to expect instant gratification in our lives, so when we are hurting we seek immediate justice and freely admit that the idea of forgiveness is far more incomprehensible than seeking an eye for an eye. Even in this supposed age of enlightenment, many would still rather handle pain through the blast of a gun than through letting it go by forgiving those who have brought us pain.<BR/><BR/>In the past century, and in the first formative years of this one, more people have died at the hands of others than from cancer and AIDS combined. Violence has become an accepted norm in today's troubled world. We talk about the need to eradicate global warming, hunger, poverty and wars between nations to save us from certain demise, but the real culprit lies much closer to the heart of each and every one of us. It lies in our inability to forgive. <BR/><BR/>The late Calvinist minister Lewis Smedes once wrote "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." Without forgiveness we cannot hope to rise above the prison imposed by our current human condition. Unless all of us — not just those who pick up guns and kill others, but all of us — learn to forgive we will remain imprisoned by our thinking and it will not be a melting ice cap that will lead to our final end — It will be us. <BR/><BR/>If we are to survive, we must not only learn how to forgive those who have sinned against us, we must teach others the gentle art of forgiving, too. <BR/>May you always find forgiveness in your heart. <BR/><BR/><BR/>Linda I was not sure if I should post this on SOS site as well. It does not seem to have much traffic yet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com