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Food for thought. I don’t think “forgiving yourself” is an option, but rather accepting that “I did wrong, I’m sorry for it” and apologizing where necessary. And we cannot forgive people for causing harm to others, only to ourselves.

https://pepelivesmatter.substack.com/p/the-power-of-forgiveness

The Power of Forgiveness

PEPE LIVES MATTER
NOV 14, 2023

Force is often the default method to bring about change. Ambition, desire, and strategy hold our attention. In the history of mankind, violence, like a raging storm, upends kingdoms and usurps thrones. Those who exhibit the most ruthless behavior often find their will realized and manifested on the Earth. We are taught that power is measured by how one can dominate others and manipulate their environment.

Bitterness is a disease that infects many of us. Whether it be from disappointment, disaster, or demonic devious schemes. We’ve all experienced something that has wounded our souls and made us feel the sting of misused power inflicting us. That pain lingers. We hide it away and pretend it isn’t there.

What can make these traumas, especially as a child, is that they come from people we once trusted.

I speak from experience as someone who went through something that hampered me and weighed me down growing up. One single wound, delivered in such a way, can surely affect more than people want to recognize. I know what it is like to feel that fear wrap itself around your heart and suffocate you. How do you forgive when the pain is ever present?

As those who have found themselves awakening to the corrupt system all around you, we often find it a challenge to resist the bitterness that forms at the sight of pure evil. The initial stages of awakening cause shock, anger, and a seismic shift in thinking. The wool is removed from your eyes and you can’t believe you’ve been at the behest of venomous wolves your entire life. All as the mainstream media tells you these snakes should be trusted. A Goliath system designed to keep you in chains.

Alice down the rabbit hole so easily causes the vines of bitterness to wrap around your very soul and it can cause you to enter a very dark place, almost as dark as the very rabbit hole itself.

How do we find peace in the midst of such evil?

Perhaps the Psalmist says it best: “Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.”

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But the greater truth is this: It was over before it began. God knows the beginning from the end. The Alpha and the Omega. He wins and there’s nothing they can do to stop Him from accomplishing His vision for healing and peace.

This greater truth can give you rest. It can free you even as you seek to free others through information and truth.

I plead with all of my conspiracy theorist friends who see with 20/20 vision to consider laying down those feelings of bitterness to God now. Not that you forget or become apathetic but that you let God heal those enraged emotions and embrace the truth. Nothing can stop God from winning. Nothing.

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Your act of forgiveness could very well start a chain reaction, a seismic quake with love at the epicenter.

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An act of forgiveness and peace can be more transformational than the evil inherent in man. Love changes the world.

So I ask you today, if you have someone who has hurt you that you find yourself having a hard time forgiving, give it to God. Forgive and let God’s power into your life. Whether it be a brother, a sister, your father, or a mother. You can forgive them and find some measure of peace. The pain often doesn’t go away entirely but the peace of God can transcend and give you joy.

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When we see God’s hand moving in the pain and the sorrow, when we allow Him to transform our situations into something beautiful, we truly transcend Babylon and live from a heavenly place. We become aliens and strangers in this world. A shining beacon on a hill.

Forgiveness is more powerful than man’s weapons of war.

Forgive yourself, forgive others, and give your emotional bandage to God today. You won’t regret it.

I would add that the Abraham Accords would likely have worked (and will when Trump returns), especially because Mohammed Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is sane and civilized and wants to reform Islam, and has done a lot in Saudi. Without Trump’s back up it is not so easy.

http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2023/11/there-is-no-moderate-jihad.html

THERE IS NO MODERATE JIHAD
Daniel Greenfield November 13, 2023

ivilized nations have spent generations trying to convince themselves that the primary religious and national impulses of the Muslim world come down to more than conquest and mass murder.

The horrors of the past few years in Afghanistan and Israel both came down to the mistaken belief that you could negotiate and reach an agreement with Jihadist movements.

Both D.C. and Jerusalem had become enchanted with diplomatic initiatives to the Muslim world, from the Abraham Accords to two years of relative peace with Hamas, politicians, generals and diplomats were convinced that they had finally unlocked the secret of coexistence.

But there’s no perpetual motion machine, no diet that lets you eat what you want and no coexistence with an ideology that is built on conquering and destroying all outsiders.

Individually, contextually and circumstantially coexistence is possible. But not in the long run.

How long that long run is depends not on building relationships, but showing strength. Civilized people treat coexistence as a means of developing bonds but the other side uses periods of coexistence to test for weaknesses. Coexistence on their side is a wholly insincere facade, no matter how authentic it may appear, that gathers information to be used when the attack comes.

Israeli Kibbutz residents thought that they were building relationships with day laborers from Gaza. They chatted about life, their kids and their various hardships. Then those same laborers returned to kill, rape and abduct them. But that is how that was always going to end.

That is how it will end for us with the millions of immigrants that we have taken into our nations.

It is a fundamental error to view Hamas as an “extremist” group. It is an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood whose political parties rule a number of Muslim countries. Its political organizations also dominate Muslim communities in America and Europe. Most of Al Qaeda’s leaders were also members of the Muslim Brotherhood. The myth of a split between political Islam and militant Islam, between moderate and extreme Islamic movements was always just that.

As Erdogan, the brutal Islamist tyrant who became the poster boy for moderate Islam said, “Islam cannot be either ‘moderate’ or ‘not moderate.’ Islam can only be one thing.” He has since, despite previous claims of turning more moderate and rebuilding relationships, renewed his support for Hamas, and threatened western nations with a Jihad against the “crusaders”.

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