by Catherine Ponder
Whenever you dare to form a vacuum, the substance of the universe then rushes in to fill that empty space. This applies on the spiritual, mental and physical planes of life.
A businessman got very sick and for weeks was under his physician's care. Every possible thing was done for him medically by his doctor, a very fine physician. But it all seemed to no avail; this man just got weaker and weaker. It seemed that his body was filled with poison and nothing seemed to dissolve it. Finally, one night, while perspiring from a high fever and deep cough, this man finally remembered the vacuum law and realized that there must be something he needed to release. Since he knew that the mind and emotions have such a powerful effect on the body, perhaps there was some mental attitude or emotional feeling that had to go, to help eradicate his pain, fever, and weakness.
He became very quiet and silently asked Divine Intelligence to reveal to him what he needed to release. Suddenly he began to think of a person against whom he had been holding a strong grudge. He had said a number of unkind things about this person and had gone to great lengths to hurt him. He then mentally reviewed the events, between them that had caused the grudge and his later desire to , hurt that person. As he honestly thought about it, he realized that the other person may not have known that his feelings had been hurt, from the events that took place; and that perhaps there was no reason for him to hold a grudge at all. (There never is!).
As he lay in bed with a high fever, he began to declare over, and over: I fully and freely forgive you. I loose you and let you go. So far as I am concerned, that incident between us is finished forever. I do not wish to hurt you. I wish you no harm. I am free and you are free and all is again well between us. In a little while a feeling of peace, quietness, and release came over him. For the first time in many nights he slept peacefully. The next morning his fever was gone, and his physician declared that the poison had miraculously left his system overnight. At long last he was on the road to recovery. Through forgiveness, this man had formed the vacuum needed so that new life could restore his body to health and his mind to peace.