Well, you've go to reach up just to touch rock bottom.

It's so easy to find your first place of defense in anger. When you are hurt and vulnerable, forgiveness is the furthest notion from your mind. While it may seem childish and submissive to forgive, where then should we turn? Our words and actions can leave scars that mark deeper than we know. What seems like an appropriate advance at someone from the beginning, may in hindsight be one of the worst possible approaches. Should we use our pain as a vessel to bring others pain? Is that what we really want, someone to wallow in their own pity with us? Take a deep breath and gather that air from something pure. Do not breathe in the muck from the worldly instincts instilled in all of us, but breathe in the words of reality. Breathe in the breath of life. It is there for us should we choose it. Instead of crawling around in our pain, reach up for a hand out of it. Do not be so vain as to pull someone else in with you. You see the opposite of love is not hate, it is anger. Love comes from a creator unburdened with His own pain, but choosing to carry ours. Let Him lift the baggage from your hands so that you may forgive, as you were forgiven, and as you were made to forgive.