I was listening to a speaker
discussing the historical Jesus a couple weeks ago. He ended his remarks
stating that instead of the customary farewell of “Go in Peace” maybe we should
say “Go in Justice” and then the Peace would follow. I am no Biblical scholar
but I associate the teachings of Jesus more with forgiveness and compassion
than with justice. I believe if we have more compassion and forgiveness, then
we will have more peace. When we have more compassion, forgiveness and peace we
will have more (divine) justice, too.
(For my musings on Divine Justice link to this blog entry from July
2012! http://iamstandinginthelight.com/divine-justice-striving-for-higher-ground/ )
As I wrote in the Divine
Justice blog entry, “The actions taken toward Divine Justice are all about
bringing the situation back into alignment with love. If any part of the
situation is not reflecting love, then it isn’t in Divine Justice. If any part
of the situation is about punishment, reprisal, guilt or shame, then it is not
a reflection of Divine Justice.”
What steps should we take in
order for any situation to come back into alignment with love? This is when the
energies of compassion and forgiveness really come into play. If we can first
seek to show compassion to others when we might not understand their point of
view and strive to forgive them when we believe they have wronged us, we will
start to let go of the anger, hurt and emotional stress of holding grudges and
wanting human justice of punishment or retribution. Showing compassion and
forgiveness should not be confused with being a doormat for anyone or anything.
Standing in your power is still the goal, but standing in Divine Power – not
power over another, not giving your power away, but the power of knowing you are
part of Divine Creation – goes hand in hand with compassion and forgiveness.
Many teachers have said that
you must start to change the world by changing yourself first. In this vein, I
would recommend that you start feeling more compassion for yourself and for whatever
missteps or faults you might believe you have. You only have these perceived
faults because you are not viewing yourself from the point of view of the
Divine Realms with the compassion and forgiveness that is available to us if we
would just allow it. The more we allow compassion and forgiveness for
ourselves, the more the natural truth and energies of the universe will help to
bring even higher frequencies of love, light and joy into our experiences and
into our cellular memory.
The effects of our experiences
stay in our cellular memory, so there is no reason not to have those memories
sitting at the highest level that we will allow. Why not have our cellular memory
swimming in joy and peace instead of anxiety and want? Consciously allowing
ourselves to take in compassion and self-forgiveness will start to allow the
cellular metamorphosis that only we can give ourselves. Giving ourselves more
compassion, more forgiveness will allow our physical, emotional, mental and
spiritual selves to feel more peace and more ease, which will allow us to feel
more peace, ease, compassion and forgiveness for others. This sets the stage
and the possibility for others to feel more peace, ease, compassion and
forgiveness for themselves and therefore for the rest of humanity and mother
earth’s other kingdoms. This is the divine cycle of healing ourselves first and
then helping to heal the world in turn, which makes it easier to heal
ourselves, and on and on…
I am confident that this is the
intent of Jesus’ message: take compassion and forgiveness into our daily lives
in order to go in peace and in love.
