Against the Wind: The Power of Forgiveness

Today, driving on the coastal road, I looked out to sea and saw a small
boat, its sails billowing on the big blue – and I thought about how we
sometimes sail against the wind to attain something.

Living in an apparently uncertain dangerous world, according to our

human thinking, we learned all kinds of coping mechanisms to attain
our dreams: one of them is "making it happen".

Pushing through obstacles, blindly tilting at windmills, wearing

ourselves out in the effort to make it happen, leaning against the
obstacles, making it right against the odds; this what we end up having
to do in order to make it.

And the prize at the end of this particular rainbow has always been –
what? A sense of achievement for only so long, the emptiness of a goal
achieved, leaving us hungering after something that will fill the void
inside us. Ever heard of the term "burn out"? Nothing left to give, worn
out, tired of pushing and it all gets too much.

It is here, in this burning place that we can choose to hear the

call of our Inner Being toward the letting go of resistance
through the gentle art of forgiveness.

Beyond all superficial goals, lie our heart goals – those things that we
access when we allow ourselves to step back for a minute, lower the
sails, turn away from sailing against the wind and allow our boat to
drift with the current. Forgiveness allows us to lower those sails in a
sense of trust.

By remembering and returning to our core worthiness, and

allowing all others to inhabit theirs, we realise the true
meaning behind the wise words, “there is nothing broke.”
We realise that it is not a world that is broken, but rather a
perspective that is skewed. This is where the power of
forgiveness allows us to detach from this perspective. It is the
willingness to set sails downstream.

1. You create your life

Affirm: I am the Creator of a Beauty-Full Life
2. You control your life
Affirm: I have the free will to align myself with what I want at
any time, in any place
3. You have the key to all change in your life
Affirm: As I embrace the power of my free will I embrace my
creative potential
4. All confrontation between you and another is YOU
struggling against a part of yourself that you can heal
Affirm: As I choose to honour the wellbeing inherent in all
things, including myself, I give myself permission to focus on
what I am wanting while knowing that all is well
5. The negative part of yourself, those characteristics that you
do not want to know about, are part of your Shadow self, and those
characteristics can be integrated into who you really are
Affirm: I joyously surrender to my ever-expanding capacity to
love unconditionally.

You are a shining, expanded, loving, abundant creator – get used to

the idea and that is how you will start experiencing yourself!
Nina Ferrell
2011