by Catherine Ponder
Here is a forgiveness technique that can form a vacuum for whatever good your life seems to need just now: Sit for half an hour every day and mentally forgive everyone that you are out of harmony with, feel badly toward or are concerned about. If you have accused anyone of injustice, if you have discussed anyone unkindly, if you have criticized or gossiped about anyone, if you are legally involved with anyone, mentally ask their forgiveness. Subconsciously, they will respond. In like manner, if you have accused yourself of failure or mistakes, forgive yourself. Forgiveness can form the vacuum that will undam your prosperity and success. Mentally declare to others: God's forgiving love has set us free. Divine Love now produces perfect results and all is again well between us. I behold you with the eyes of love and I glory in your success, prosperity and complete good. It is good to declare for yourself: I am forgiven and governed by God's Love alone and all is well.
I once talked with a lady who was having great difficulty in her marriage. Her husband was on the brink of losing a very fine job because of his drinking and instability. When I suggested that she let go those ideas about her husband and form a vacuum for greater good to come to them by forgiveness, she self-righteously declared, "There is no reason for me to try forgiveness. There is nothing to forgive. I love my husband.
But I suggested that some kind of vacuum obviously needed to be formed; that there was much about their situation that she would like to be free of; and that perhaps it was not her husband she needed to forgive, but that all of us need to practice forgiveness every day because of many negative, subconscious attitudes stored in our emotions of which we are are not even consciously aware.
Rather reluctantly, she finally agreed to sit for half an hour every day and practice forgiveness. Later, she declared in amazement that the names of people she had long forgotten came to her during those times, and that unpleasant or unhappy experiences of the past floated up in her memory. To all of these she declared words and thoughts of freedom, release and forgiveness, as well as for and concerning her husband's recent behavior. As she began to feel relieved and freed of a lot of old, half-buried, hostile emotions and attitudes, her husband's drinking ceased. He began to work very hard in his job again. And success came in such a big way that she was even able to stop working and provide a beautiful home for her husband, which had long been their desire. Thus, the power of forgiveness.