When our future rearranges us, then our past becomes the fuel for our art.
Remember, every time God forgives sins, he is saying that relationship matters more than his own rules. Think about that. Forgiveness honours disorder while still naming it disorder.*
Richard Rohr
Forgiveness restores our future to us,
Severing us from a heavy past
and uniting us with something brighter–
Not to deny what has happened,
Rather altering our relationship to it.
No longer are we held back, but
with a new heart are fuelled
forward, enabled
for creativity and beauty
as only each of us may deliver into the world.
Where does your forgiveness come from?–
How has it provided your future
and reshaped your past?
*Richard Rohr’s The Tears of Things.
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