Life Loves You by Louise Hay

Author:Louise Hay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2015-04-10T16:00:00+00:00

With only a few changes to the words, this sage advice can be extended to children to help them live their own life. My rewrite says:

Your parents are not your parents.

They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

You come through them but not from them,

And though they are with you yet you belong not to them.

Your parents are your first mirrors, and they are also your first teachers. “We learn a lot about how to forgive or not forgive from our parents,” says Louise. Typically, children adopt their parents’ attitudes as their own at first. Children learn mostly by imitation in the early years. Your parents’ teachings are your first “bible,” so to speak. Some of their teachings will be helpful to you, but not all of them. No doubt, you will need to unlearn some teachings in order to hear your own holy voice.

While Louise and I have been writing this book, we’ve also been designing a public program called Life Loves You. One of the modules is on family attitudes and forgiveness. In this module, you explore what your mother and father taught you about forgiveness as you were growing up. We designed a questionnaire to help you with your inquiry. Here’s a sample of the questions:

Was your mother a forgiving person?

What did your mother teach you about forgiveness?

How did your mother handle conflict?

How did your mother heal her grievances?

How did your mother let you know all was forgiven?

How did your mother ask for forgiveness?

Was your father a forgiving person?

What did your father teach you about forgiveness?

How did your father handle conflict?

How did your father heal his grievances?

How did your father let you know all was forgiven?

How did your father ask for forgiveness?

Our parents give us our first opportunity to practice forgiveness. This is true, no matter how loving your parents were. The class on forgiveness begins at birth for both parent and child. This class is 24/7 with only a few short breaks, mostly for sleep. Parent and child are both student and teacher. The syllabus is full of new learning. There are good days and bad days. And every day there’s another opportunity to practice forgiveness.

Where there is love, there is forgiveness. With love, forgiveness is so natural it doesn’t even need a name. Love is forgiving. Love dissolves grievances before they turn to poison. Love heals you quicker than a wound appears. Love makes amends so you don’t have to take a wrong turn. And yet, we all fall out of love, both with ourselves and with each other. We forget the basic truths that we are loveable and that life loves us. This forgetfulness obscures our vision and distorts our mirror. This is when the need for forgiveness arises.

Every family has a forgiveness story. This story is part of the human drama and our personal drama. Parents never fully live up to their ideal self, and so they must learn self-forgiveness if they are to grow into truly loving men and women.

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