The act of forgiveness is not used nearly enough

I fully understand that forgiving is a problem for many people.  Atrocities, when committed toward innocent people, by mentally deranged and socially unbalanced people,  are extremely hard to forgive and especially almost impossible to forget. 

Forgiving and forgetting aren't even in the same category because one can forgive much easier than one can forget.

I've noticed lately that forgiveness, by some people I personally know, is only based on the wrong being corrected before the act of forgiveness is demonstrated.

That's not forgiveness because the wrong was corrected. 

When the wrong isn't corrected and someone forgives someone for their negative actions then the light of tolerance and compassion shine through and forgiveness lives large.

I fully expect the people I know, both family and friends, to listen to me on this subject.

I fully acknowledge that the ones who can't forgive will tell me to mind my own business.

Harmony, among family and friends, is every one's business....because it flows over and affects the basic structure of society.

So many wonderful words get bantered about at this time of the year and although it's generally a retail ad campaign moment to get you spending your money, there's enough foundation involved to recognize that the ideals and principles of Peace, Love and Harmony are monster concepts that should be increased throughout every waking moment.

Or for certain.....the attempt at increasing Peace, Love and Harmony.

Those three concepts cannot be truthfully constructed without forgiveness.

Everybody makes mistakes.

Everybody.

And everybody knows that everybody makes mistakes and yet I see people who have made huge mistakes become totally judgemental when focusing on other people's mistakes and conclusions are reached that affect the Peace, Love and Harmony within a given social unit and basically holiday cheer turns into holiday stress and holiday stress is amplified to such a degree that effects of a bad holiday are carried into the new year and before one can understand what happened there's a moment in Newtown, Connecticut that causes abnormal stress on the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE.

There are horrible events that should not be tolerated and there are moments among families and friends that are so far below those type of events that it's actually silly to even mention them in the same paragraph....but I see those trivial moments becoming the primary structure of how certain people interact.

Words can be ignored.  Thoughts can be changed.  Attitudes can be adjusted.

There are some things that cannot be altered.

Words, thoughts and attitudes are not among those things.

WORDS, THOUGHTS AND ATTITUDES ARE ADJUSTABLE.

But it all starts with introspection and realizing that forgiveness is the only road in which new arenas of behavior can be constructed.

It's really not as hard as it sounds unless stubbornness is the dominant element residing at the core of behavior.

Christmas should be the time we practice eliminating stubbornness and increasing the
forgiveness brand of our personal mission statements.

I really can't believe I used mission statement and brand in the same sentence......but what the heck, it's almost 2013 and we've all got to fall in line with the times.

So therefore my Christmas wish to EVERYBODY is...............

IMPROVE YOUR PERSONAL BRAND BY EXPANDING YOUR FORGIVENESS
GENE. 

Find it and fix it....or at the very least....realize that it needs some adjustment.

Have a Merry Christmas and let's all work on making 2013 full of Peace, Love and
Harmony.

Michael Timothy McAlevey