Forgiveness is about making peace with reality. It means you let go of your inner resistance regarding present circumstances and what led to them. As a result, you are free to fully focus on how to move forward productively. Forgiveness does not mean that you approve of what you are forgiving. It is not the same as condoning. When you forgive yourself, it means you are being gentle and honest. When you forgive others, it means you are being compassionate and sane.
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this morning i was thinking about mochi and lime having one of those hilarious and very on-brand friends(tm) moments of "You literally abandoned me all of us for 3 years" vs "You joined the organization that exists to kill us"
turns into "(long pause) Call it even??" "Ok!" [high five]
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Being cruel to the version of you that didn't know any better changes nothing about the things they did. It hurts the person who turned around and reflected, the person who learned from their mistakes and held themselves accountable, the person who deserves to heal, and the person who deserves to move forward. Forgive yourself.
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Okay I talked enough about Macky, time to balance it out but s4 y’all like that was DEVIOUS they showed the Specific Macky Scene where he’s tied up in the unalivement by his own shadows (I think) it’s like the only similar thing so like, Wukong remembers that? for a split second with the melting blue face it almost seemed like Macky was crying, also oof, he sounded more distressed than angry, well anyways and then we have even MORE evil stuff like the DIALOGUE “you’re nothing” “what have you done? “Monkey! No violence!” and that last line? It’s so much closer to the ear, and when Wukong goes “no!” right after that ohohoho that was SOOO on purpose, and can we PLEASE talk about the special where he gives that hero speech because daaaaang I love them turning it on our heads like that bc Wukong is well, he ain’t lying, in fact I’m bouncing up and down how it’s Ink MK he’s talking to and the fact this is their way of representing Wukong battling against his own mind. “I know you don’t really believe that.” Okay but he’s TRYING and I both love that and relate to it. And when he calls everyone his friends MMMM Wukong’s key characterization can sometimes be so subtle but if you CATCH THE VIBES you can think so hard about it, like they REALLY just had to crush him like that in the middle of that speech? and then how he has to bring it all back in a shower of gold and power, yeah buddy, I still don't think you're okay! I love Macky whump as much as the next person, but boi do I love Wukong's entire hero/mentor/flawed humane character dilemma too. hook line and sinker, you can pull me in with him kicking butt and you can pull me in with the angst and excitement from that heroic visage, one can only be trapped as the legendary savior until I start cackling over fourth wall breaking their lives and sad little situation, oh buddy does the narrative praise you! what an untouchable hero you are. get up, again again again- you can't retire :D this is "past catching up with you" done RIGHT. because it's just him. becoming a different person, maturing, and nobody is here to drag him down to hell. it's still just himself. and everything he was never able to fully work through, the idea of him everyone still holds when they see him, and, most of that stuff came after the journey, so he got new issues as he became "the good guy" the hero for centuries, what a polished stone monkey right? but the consequences of all those experiences on his new personality...nobody would see some of those things as a problem. like his accepted loneliness when MK thinks to see the fireworks with his friends. the serene smile as Wukong just looks away. yeah okay, you became the great sage, you got wisdom pal, and it's such a smiling sad look on you!
stop reading my mind 🤧
NO BUT HIS SMILE!!!!! HIS SMILE IS ALWAYS HAS A TOUCH OF SADNESS!!!! THERE IS A WEIGHT THERE!!!!!
he makes all these off-handed comments like they are jokes and moves to a different topic so fast that you forget about them—BUT NOT ME I REMEMBER!!!! THEY ARE BURNED INTO MY MIND AND THEY HAUNT ME
because it was never just an “off-handed” comment. no, no, no! lmk doesn’t play by those rules. even the tiniest details or throwaway jacket style is picked carefully for foreshadowing purposes.
AND WUKONG IS FULL OF THEM!!! HIS LINES, HIS MANNERISMS, HIS FUCKING OMISSIONS!!!
*ugly crying* this monkey is killing me 🫠
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Devotional Reflection on Love, Forgiveness, Divine Mysteries
A Divine Love Mystery I am sitting with is that in the Divine Heart, all is dissolved. St Sr Thérèse touches on this in her autobiography, that all dissolves in God’s love.
God is first & always Love, not punishment or rejection. Human ideas of God, punishment, transformation…human ideas of God up to now have given so many of us the idea that God - and I mean the Totality, the Essence, the Core Love, not a face or piece of any pantheon through any time but the Core Love- the idea that God is cruel.
Life can be cruel. Humans are cruel to one another, often and deeply and by choice. We see the horror of ourselves and would rather the divine move with cruelty in return. Gods can be cruel, even. Plenty of spirits can be. The fish is still off the ocean w/o the ocean being the fish.
Human spirits will always be of the Great Big, but the Great Big can never be wholly contained in one being.
Now, recognition of the Divine Universal Soul is not work for everyone and shouldn’t be, just like forgiveness is not work for everyone. Recognition of shared soul spaces with humans, Gaia, the cosmos is a lot! For most of us the work is genuine recognition of self, healing for self and lineage and community and doing this work (for self and community, recognizing self) for a lot of us involves rage. In a temporary way we must be at odds with others as we empty the wounds of ourselves.
We all have to get shit out so we can see.
Forgiveness is intrinsic to transformation; compassion for the self allows correct perspective. You have to see yourself for real before your heart and mind healthily allow for transformation in others.
If you refuse to see yourself you put yourself second.
Forgiveness for humans is again, really for the self. All forgiveness is a personal choice, but that choice should not be something damaging to you, or untrue to you!
God can handle it, you don’t have to forgive people. So when we say all dissolves In love, in the divine heart of love
All judgement of self
All feeling of not being enough or shame around what you can and cannot do
These things dissolve.
If you want to go a step further you can hold space for others. Allow transformation of character to blossom. There is a thought that people will perform to our expectations of them and to some degree this is true! If it is still loving and honorable to you, see if you can hold space for another to grow. If you can allow your perspective of them to shit and give their spirit the space to do so.
Long Ramble to say
I am choosing to exist in the divine heart, in the Heart of my Mother. And maybe I will turn this life into an even deeper testimony with God, one of transformative love, of more than enough, of yes I can help, of yes you can do this.
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