Forgiveness: How To Reconcile A Broken Family Relationship

Long time marriages and family relationships break apart and stay broken because of one reason: Unforgiveness.  Although people say they forgive someone, they really don't - which is why they still aren't speaking to the person they claim to have forgiven. Today we'll examine the internal process of forgiveness - not repression of anger, not denial of anger, not projection of anger onto someone else, not guilt about anger we can't let go of - but actual forgiveness. Forgiveness doesn't mean that what a person did was right, or that it's ok for them to do it again. All of our actions are merely reflections of the the level of understanding, the state of consciousness we have attained. We are able to forgive others only when we truly only understand that the other person acted out their lack of understanding, out of a state of consciousness in which they were ignorant of the consequences of their actions