A mother and her four-year-old boy were brushing their teeth together.
Suddenly, the little boy’s toothbrush slipped from his hand, and it fell right into the toilet bowl. Instinctively, the boy fished out his toothbrush from the toilet bowl and was about to put it into his mouth again when the mother shrieked to the
highest heavens.
“Stop!” Immediately, she grabbed the toothbrush from her son and threw it into the trash bin.
After washing her son’s hand and giving him a new toothbrush, they continued brushing their teeth.
The little boy asked, “Mom, why did you throw away my old toothbrush?”
“Because it’s dirty! It fell into the toilet,” explained the mother.
“Oh,” the boy said. “Mom, I think you also have to throw away your toothbrush.”
“Why?” the mother asked as she continued to brush her teeth.
“Because three days ago, I dropped your toothbrush in the toilet bowl. But I got it back and returned it!”
If it’s dirty, it has to be thrown away.
But I know many people who still keep spiritual trash in their lives.
One of them is unforgiveness.
If you want to live a life of miracles, this is one thing that must be throw away.
Allow Yourself to Be Angry
I’m not saying you can’t be angry.
I’ve learned that forgiveness is a journey of three specific parts.
The first part is to face the anger. To acknowledge the anger. To validate it.
To admit that you’ve been wronged.
The second is to pray for the power to forgive.
And the third is to release that anger and forgive.
When someone hurts you very deeply, you can’t just say, “That’s OK. Forget about it. It’s all water under the bridge.” No. You need to tell yourself, “It’s OK to be angry.” Let me tell you why.
In my books Your Past Does Not Define Your Future and Stop Hidden Addictions, I wrote about my childhood experience of being sexually molested by two men and how it caused me to have porn addiction that almost destroyed my life.
For the longest time, as a teenager, I thought I had already forgiven these men. “It’s easy for me to forgive,” I’d tell people when they’d ask me about it.
What I didn’t realize was that I wasn’t facing the anger in my soul.
Years later, I realized that because I didn’t allow myself to get angry, I wasn’t giving value to myself. In other words, I wasn’t loving myself. Which was important for my inner healing and the healing of my addictions.
No wonder I couldn’t control the addictions that were raging within me.
It was my soul crying out for love, but because it wasn’t getting any, it escaped to substitutes for love. For me, it was porn and sexual fantasies.
But the day I finally acknowledged that what these men did to me was wrong—a horrible crime—and that I was angry at what they did, I felt valued!
And it was the start of my healing.
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