dailydatewithgod

In my advocacy for the movement to abolish the death penalty in California and ultimately the United States, I see how easy it is for us to label people and their mistakes.  We lock people up and throw away their humanity.  I believe people should own up to their mistakes and face the consequences.  I just do not understand how us inflicting death on others is anything more than being bound by our hatred.  I get it the feelings of anger.  As an incest survivor I have faced many dark thoughts about my father.  I learned after a while, however, that my anger and dark thoughts did nothing to him.  It was when I decided I no longer wanted to be bound by my feelings of anger that God was able to show me how to soften my heart.  It does not make what he did okay but I am not responsible for keeping him bound because it binds me to anger.  We all have our own forms of depriving ourselves of freedom.  We think our binding keeps us safe or protects of from further harm.  Unfortunately we are not able to keep it from binding our hearts from love.  We are the ones who suffer when we allow ourselves to be deprived of the freedom of love.  Each person has their own process and I believe what it says in Ecclesiastes that there is a time for all things under heaven. I believe we have to move through phases of the spiritual lessons that walk the path from recognizing what is binding our hearts to desiring freedom of love within us more than the binding. God wants our hearts to be free to love and anything big or small that our hearts God is willing to help us let go of.

My prayer for us is the courage to look and just notice what is binding our hearts and keeping love at bay today.

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