Bad things happen to everyone. They come in all forms like illness, miscarriages, abandonment, or abuse. Other times they are a result of your own bad decisions like alcohol, drug or porn addictions. Regardless of how you acquire your baggage, it’s likely you have anger about it. People use that anger to protect themselves against the pain that comes from their baggage. Although you know you need to forgive, you don’t quite know how. Forgiveness is the key to your healing, peace and personal freedom. If you are suffering, you may use anything else like television, sex or booze to numb your pain. Choosing to numb your pain with bad habits will only bring more pain into your life. Regardless of how you choose not to deal with the wound that caused your anger, you’ll never be able to heal from it. Forgiveness is the only way.

Forgiveness gives you personal freedom

Anger is poison.

Anger infiltrates your life and it does emotional damage that prevents you from developing healthy relationships and healing broken ones. We may even hold anger toward ourselves for making poor decisions. Anger blocks your ability to feel, connect and express. Anger causes separation between you and the people that matter to you. Anger is the poison kills you slowly and feeds on your soul, but there’s hope. To save yourself and your relationships from unnecessary pain, you must learn how to stop your anger. Forgiveness is the key.

Forgiveness is an elixir.

Forgiveness is not condoning another person’s or your own actions. It is absolving the offender of their debt. If you are a Christian, it’s exactly what Christ did on the cross for mankind. His death absolved us of our debt from sin. When you release an offender from his or her offense you also start to release the pain. Then, you create a clearing in your life through forgiveness and you can begin healing and developing emotional health.

Forgiveness isn’t easy, but there are some tricks to help you forgive. It seems much easier to protect yourself from pain by holding on to the wall you create with anger. Forgiveness takes a commitment and desire to feel free. You may have to forgive repeatedly to set yourself free. It is a choice, not a feeling, but forgiving can generate new feelings of peace. I know you want more peace, love, empowerment and personal freedom in your life. You’ll never achieve it through taking poisonous anger. You’ll find it through the elixir of forgiveness.