love yourself...

“I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.” ~ Maya Angelou


We never really think about that we need to forgive ourselves for making mistakes. At some point in time in your life you have to let it go and forgive yourself. As Christians we go to God and ask for forgiveness of our sins, but do we ever just look in the mirror and say "I forgive myself" for what has happened? I look back on the mistakes I've made in my life and I don't think I have ever taken the time to do it. I've prayed to be forgiven, but sometimes haven't felt any peace. I've been forgiven by other people and still haven't felt peace.

So here it goes... I forgive you Roz Buckalew...

I will let you know how I feel later ;)