More Beautiful Than Before by Steve Leder

Author:Steve Leder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2017-10-24T04:00:00+00:00

“Anger is a lot of work.”

During one of our laptop chats, I asked Ali if she was angry about being deaf, mute, and partially paralyzed. Here’s what she wrote:

“Yes, I get angry. I don’t like being treated like a child just because I can’t speak or hear. I hate what has happened to me. But I do not stay angry because it is so difficult to express anger without words. It’s much easier to express love. All I have to do is smile . . . and look at my friend or my sister . . . all I have to do is hold her hand or put my arm around her, or laugh when we’re talking. I can easily mouth, “I love you,” with no voice . . . and the feeling comes through; you don’t really need a voice for that. But anger is different. Anger is a lot of work.”

Could it be that what Ali was teaching—she who was without words or sound—was that we are better suited, more naturally inclined, better meant to express love rather than anger? Could it be that we were not really meant to punish each other for our mistakes and our angry words, that our future can be different than our past, that we can pull out the nails, forgive, open our palms and hearts wide so that love does not die?

We can remove the nails that have pierced our family and our friendships. Because forgiveness is not only about the past for which we are responsible, but about the future as well. We are responsible for the future of our family and our friendships. Pull out the nails that have torn you and your loved ones apart. Pull out the nails. Because without forgiveness, love dies.

Is there any better lesson, any greater gift, anything more healing than the power of a sincere apology to someone we have wounded? I am so sorry unlocks a heart bound up in anger and lights the path to healing for all who suffer pain.

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