tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567475060382733569.post4956528015694829367..comments2023-10-16T07:17:34.858-04:00Comments on Mind - Body Thoughts: Forgiveness For Survivors of Sexual AbuseDon Shetterly - Relaxing Piano Musichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10127640545301835657noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567475060382733569.post-84841048635511741432013-10-22T14:01:59.827-04:002013-10-22T14:01:59.827-04:00I normally refrain from allowing comments with lin...I normally refrain from allowing comments with links to commercial sites, but after looking at your website, I thought it was appropriate for this post (especially since it appears that you genuinely are commenting on it). I get so many people that try to spam me so I'm cautious these days.<br /><br />I do thank you for your comments. It is a long road through healing with many ups and downs and it took me many years. A heartfelt thank you from me for standing up for survivors - they are many and there aren't usually people there willing to stand up with them.Don Shetterly - Relaxing Piano Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10127640545301835657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567475060382733569.post-56144888653499580102013-10-22T13:32:45.882-04:002013-10-22T13:32:45.882-04:00What a lovely and wonderful post. I am in awe of y...What a lovely and wonderful post. I am in awe of your words. Your grace and serenity to move on from such trauma and anguish. I am proud of your story since I believe a lot more survivors can benefit from it and be empowered on their road to healing and peace. What you've said about forgiveness is something that more people should be aware of. <br /><br /><a href="http://zalkin.com/what-we-do/personal-injury-cases/overview/" rel="nofollow">The Zalkin Law Firm, P.C.</a> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01082130031462496863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567475060382733569.post-76624321830787952402010-11-12T12:07:32.033-05:002010-11-12T12:07:32.033-05:00I found your blog via your sig link at malesurvivo...I found your blog via your sig link at malesurvivor. Glad to have another resource for recovery from someone who understands.Stevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13346506272189195497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567475060382733569.post-87407396159125435632010-11-10T14:52:50.198-05:002010-11-10T14:52:50.198-05:00wow, beautifully put..just beautifully put. When ...wow, beautifully put..just beautifully put. When we forgive, truly the most healing part is for our own spirit, so it does not block us from progressing and enjoying all the beautiful things and people around us. For many times the people whom we forgive are also suffering, although some may not know or acknowledge. Human beings are not perfect, we make mistakes, say things we don't mean, and sooner or later, whether in this life or in the following ones, trust me one's spirit will learn and move beyond such primitive ways of being. <br /><br />This morning, as I parked my car at a school, where I go at times to sub for a teacher, I saw a yellow paper nestled in the fallen leaves. Curious mind as I am, I picked it up and it was like a little spiritual card of Prayer of Peace-St. Francis of Assis..and one side has a beautiful picture and the other has a lovely prayer..and I now write you the little prayer in the back..(I was so happy to find it, and obviously I was supposed to find/pick it up, as I don't believe in coincidences) here is the prayer from the back..<br /><br />Prayer of Peace<br />St.Francis of Assisi<br /><br />Lord, make me an instrument of<br />Your Peace.<br />Where there is hatred, let me sow love.<br />Where there is injury, pardon;<br />Where there is doubt, faith;<br />Where there is despair, hope;<br />Where there is darkness, light;<br />and where there is sadness, joy.<br />O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;<br />To be understood, as to understand;<br />To be loved, as to love;<br />For it is in giving that we receive.<br />It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.<br />And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.<br /><br /> ****<br /><br />Maybe I came across to this little card for you today, and I pray that it will mean something to your beautiful heart. You are beautiful just as you are, we are beautiful with all our experiences; happy, sad,terrible,..we are who we are ..the perfect beings we are for what we have gone through. <br /><br />many blessings to you, and I know you will do so much good because of your experiences my dear. Look at this beautiful blog you are writing, touching the lives of so many that will by "coincidence" come across to it..there is no magic, the magic is YOU..WE..Mary Annhttp://www.fathergodandi.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com