Clemency

Clemency by Melody Pabz

      I started to cry but it made me feel worse. I felt that my heart was broken. I was in intense pain. It was an affliction…

     I closed my eyes. I pointed my finger at the Today’s advice’s poster. My finger landed on “Let go & let God.” My anger and desire for revenge poisoned my entire being. I had entered the dark psychology of revenge. It was not easy to forgive. My sense of fairness told me that people should pay for the wrong they did.

     How can I forgive? It is not like the way how a child open his hand and frees a trapped butterfly. How can I let go of the past? How can I heal the hurt? How can I create a new beginning out of past pain? How can I let go of my desire for vengeance? And I felt myself stuck up in the “how can I?”

   I opened the Bible and searched for the verses that will answer my questions. I read Mark 11:25-26 and Eph. 4:31-32.

Mark 11

25 ” And wherever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.

26 But if you do not forgive, neither your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.”

Eph. 4

31 ” Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.”