Radical forgiveness is hard. I found this book fairly early in my quest to find closure with my relationship to my husband Jonathan. Yet it took me years to not only forgive him but thank him for being who he was in my life. “Fake it ‘til you make it” is author Colin Tipping’s advice, and I didn’t truly make it until I wrote Second Life. For me, the writing process itself, communicating as clearly, fully, and logically as I possibly can to “the reader,” leads me to truth-telling with myself, and writing the chapter in Second Life on my radical forgiveness of Jonathan was truly a revelation and a blessing.
Radical Forgiveness so clearly lays out the interrelationship of our ego, the world we experience, and our soul. The ego works so hard to keep us small, insecure, and in fear. Tipping provides plenty of examples of how we create our pain from a false belief about ourselves, over and over again in the life we experience, to the point of creating personal suffering and deadly illness. Even the most conservative medical practitioners no longer doubt that emotional energy creates physical health or dis-ease in the body. It’s interesting that it’s so hard for us to go one step further and believe that our reality is a manifestation of our emotions AND our beliefs about ourselves.
One final note: Of all things, a children’s book, The Little Soul and the Sun, by Neale Donald Walsch, so simply and beautifully illustrates the divine learning behind radical forgiveness. Every grownup needs to read it! (And the illustrations are gorgeous, too.)
