Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing.

There are going to be moments today you don't like me. You'll get over it.

Regardless of how hard, challenging, frightening, or difficult an experience may seem, everything is just as it needs to be in order for us to heal, grow, and learn.

You're never healing the level you're on. You're always healing the level you came from. For example, you know things today that you didn't know in your first marriage.

You are never angry for the reason you think you are. There's an older hurt under that.

I love a vision board. I have one hanging over my desk right now. Because what you see, you become, and it reminds you when you start getting busy in the day, about your vision. I like words more than pictures. I have a card sitting on my desk right now that says, "I only give out that which I wish to receive in return." It's one of Louise Hay's cards. Words remind me more and it gives me something to hold onto when I'm frantic about something else.

From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering.