Sunday, October 20, 2013

Like Cancer

So it's Breast Cancer Awareness month..a lot of pink, a lot of fundraising events, and of course the encouragement for exams to detect cancer. It's good and fine, but there's another examination that I would like to propose--an examination of the soul.

Have you ever had something eat at you "like a cancer"? I'm talking about grudges, things that were said or something that was done to us or even things that were not done that hurts us. Like the physical disease, these injuries to our soul can start out as something benign. But over time, if we are unwilling to forgive and let it go, the injury can begin to change and grow into a deadly poison. It can wreck our attitude and destroy relationships. It can cloud our perspective and keep us in very dark, unhappy places.

Fortunately, there IS a cure for this "cancer" of the soul. We can seek God and ask for His grace (i.e. Divine power) to forgive those who injure us. Cancer or not, this is a much better way to live, in forgiveness.

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