Where There is Injury

Where there is injury:

the third line of the Prayer of Saint Francis will be difficult, not just for some, but for all of us at some point in our lives. It’s here that we are asked to pardon others in the light of injury to ourselves, to offer forgiveness without a sense of justice to prevail. Of course this seems impossible, that it should be left to realm of saints who are better suited to such tasks.

yet this prayer is for all of us.

where there is injury,

pardon.

this is spiritual technology, it’s transformative prayer, and will it seem to demand the most difficult assignments for us to perform. Forgiveness doesn’t belong to the ego, it’s simply impossible for it to comprehend the deeper sight involved here. So yes, to pardon in the light of injury, even the slightest insult, will cause the ego to rebel. What’s needed then is a forgiveness beyond the ego, something far greater,

a more loving presence than the thoughts of who we are.

and to reach this,

we simply ask for a miracle.

it’s here where the transformation begins, relinquishing our smaller role of bargaining and negotiating terms of forgiveness, letting go of our endless demands of always being right and certain…and surrendering our every…