ever hurt someone? Have I ever
been so stubborn, proud and
oblivious to recognize that and
apologize? Wouldn’t I like to be
forgiven? I further try to focus on
the positive qualities of the person. It really helps me put things
in perspective. Every one of us
have been there; every one of us
may have hurt someone whether
knowingly or unknowingly. Every
person has good in them, we just
need to try to find it.
It is important to understand
that overtime the pain will be
easier to deal with and you
may even stop feeling the pain.
So why hold on to the grudge?
Why not free yourselves of the
emotional baggage by forgiving the person? The peace
you may feel is priceless.
3. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
Unconditional Love is the ultimate
key to overcome all the negative
emotions and feel positivity. You
cannot really love someone unconditionally without accepting
them or forgiving them. Hence,
if one practices acceptance and
forgiveness, one is learning to
also practice unconditional love.
Faith, however, is an important
component of unconditional
love. It is the unfaltering faith in
yourself, in others and in higher
being that stands Unconditional
Love apart.
Immaculée Ilibagiza is a living
example of faith put into action.
In 1994 Immaculée’s perfect and
loving world was ripped apart.
With the start of Rwandan genocide, she and seven other women
spent 91 days huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom
of a local pastor’s house. Immaculée entered the bathroom a vi16
brant, 115-pound university
student with a loving family –
she emerged weighing just 65
pounds to find her most of her
family had been brutally murdered.
Incredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. Rather
than succumbing to anger
and resentment about her situation, Immaculée turned to
prayer. Immaculée found solace and peace in prayer and
began to pray from the time
she opened her eyes in the
morning to the time she closed
her eyes at night. Through
prayer, she eventually found
it possible, and in fact imperative, to forgive her tormentors
and her family’s murderers.
Immaculée’s strength in her
faith empowered her to come
face to face with the killer of
her mother and her brother