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When we forgive, we create. We are creators, and love is the power of creation. How do we react when we are forgiven? How do we react when we are not forgiven? There is an internal reaction and an external reaction. Both the external and the internal reactions will affect our health, relationships, finances and our state of mind.

Back to our ability to create; when we forgive, we are giving someone a second chance to become something a little higher than was previously expressed. When I am forgiven of a wrong doing or a series of wrong doings I become motivated to express myself in a better, higher order. I may not achieve it the first, second or third time, but what was created in me is possibility.

There is the possibility that I can become more than what I am, or perceive myself to be. With possibility comes the determination to try again. Forgiveness creates that atmosphere in our hearts to express our possibilities. I can begin again without the weight of that mistake that I had made, and the condemnation associated with it. When people don't forgive, they condemn others sometimes to a lifetime of unresolved pain which restricts our thought process, decisions, movement and level of success.

I remember playing organized basketball and the awful feeling of condemnation whenever I made a mistake on the court. It wasn't personal, we all heard screams of disapproval whenever we made a mistake. An athlete already knows when he or she has made a mistake or contributed to a bad play. Most conscientious athletes that I know will hustle immediately to rectify the mistake, or make a better play. We all know when we aren't performing our best and most of us will work a little harder to right the wrongs that we had produced. That effort to right our own wrongs becomes warped when we are condemned for it. It takes away our energy, our motivation, and a little bit of our lives.

Forgiveness creates, and we are creators. Forgiveness is just the beginning of our ability to create. Faith, belief is the next step. All things are possible to him who believes. In order to forgive we must have a measure of faith or love. Either way, we create good or evil when we forgive or refuse to forgive. Sometimes our health, our state of mind, or better yet, our ongoing anger, or our ongoing love will place us where we have placed others, for better or for worse.

There are many reasons to forgive, but the greatest reason is for love to flourish and for us to realize that there is a higher order at work in our lives if we'll just give in to it.

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