This day , the last day of Maslenitsa and the day before the Great Lent, is one of my favourite Christian traditions. As we all know forgiveness is the core message of Christianity and also a powerful tool to free our blocked heads from a mess of thoughts. The God will forgive your sins if you forgive other people. Forgiveness is a must!
According to this tradition you can ask forgiveness of every person you meet this day, but especially people whom you might have really done some harm, or just your parents, relatives and friends ( we never know if by chance we could have hurt anyone!).
Normally one person greets another and says “ please forgive me”, in response he/she says “God will forgive you. And I forgive too”. Then they can hug each other heartily…Isn’t it beautiful?
Observing this wonderful tradition, let me humbly ask each of you, my dearest members of EC: “Please forgive me!”
Love and Hug,
Galina
Comments
Anele, I’m really pleased to see you commenting my blog. I absolutely agree with you that in our busy daily life, in stressful situations we can easily hurt each other. So, the only way out of such situations is to learn to forgive and to learn to ask for forgiveness. It is a must. Only then we establish peace within ourselves.
Anele, your father is a very wise man. He found an excellent explanation of forgiveness. I think you take after him being such a wise teacher. You know it’s so interesting but I find some similarities in our approach of treating students. I’m a very emotional person and while carrying away by emotions I can say true but sometimes unpleasant things. But to my surprise students are practically never angry with me. I’m grateful to them for it. Anele, it’s great to see that living in such different countries, we still have much in common. I can’t say I’m a great teacher , I simply try to do the more and the best I can. And I admire your English. Thanks for your support.
Sandeep, I’m amazed the way you developed the idea of forgiveness. It’s really a global topic and it’s very interesting to discuss it from different angles and different points of view (e.g. ….should we forgive everything and everybody?). But one thing is clear….we should master the Art of Forgiveness. It will set us free from bitterness and tornament.
Thank you very much for developing the topic with such interesting ideas. It doesn’t matter if I’m a teacher or not, it’s because you’re an intelligent, considerate and creative person!
We say God is great! but why he/she is great? Because he/she knows art of forgiveness. He/she knows mankind will do lots of mistakes through all his life and that's how they will progress towards life and build society. One who understand this art will move ahead in his/her life.
In sort way Forgiveness is the way to get progress in life as well as to get success. We all should research on this instead of walking on moon or mars. I don't mean we should close down all satellite operation. But we need to think on this more and more.
Oh my it's really going to be interesting. I never thought on this way. Thank you so much for thinking me this way. You are really a Teacher!
“ Forgiveness is an art”…..what beautiful and true words, Sandeep! I like this definition of forgiveness. And you’re absolutely right that to say 'Forgive me please' is rather difficult for many people. Of course, they should have practice in it because then their life will be much easier and they will have a chance to live in inity, solidarity and love. Thanks for your comment.
Forgiveness is the ultimate way to pure your heart. It is an art which comes from the deep down from your heart. Perhaps not an easy way, but it needs to have lots of practice. One who know this art knows to get ambience of god.
Hello Nasir!
I completely agree with you that it would be a wonderful tradition to ask forgiveness of our nearest and dearest every evening before going to bed. By the way in the past when religion was in the heart of Russian people there was a custom of asking each other's forgiveness for discourtesy and disrespect at evening services in church. "Forgiveness Sunday" received this name from this tradition. Thank you very much for your comment, Nasir.
P.S.There are practically no mistakes in your comment ( in my opinion).
Hello NaeVi!
Thanks for your comment, and one more thanks for your sense of humour. Of course, first of all I ask forgiveness of those members of EC whom I've unintentionally hurt. But anyway I'm grateful to you for reading my blog.
God will forgive you, and I forgive you Galina hehe :)