Message from Metatron through Diana Henderson Sunday, July 29, 2001, 12:30 a.m.

It is I, Metatron, and I am with you. I come to you on behalf of the Council of Light, and Melchizedek is with me, and Michael is with me, and Jesus, and Mary along with Raphael, and your own angels, guardians, teachers. We are with you in this time of cleansing, in this time of healing, in this time of Oneness, in this time of Awakening.

This message is for one and for all. It is the time when Man is asked to forgive and to love. It is is Man's most difficult mission and yet his most valued, most important mission, to learn to love unconditionally while maintaining the existence within the world of form. This and no less than this are you invited and asked to perform. It is a great quest, a great mission, and this service you perform on behalf not only of yourselves—each one of you—but on behalf of all who exist in this realm of Earth, and indeed on behalf of the energy and consciousness of the Earth Herself. In this time, you have the opportunity; the knowledge and the wisdom are within your reach. So many have told you these words. Many beings of Light and Spirit who walk the Earth, who share this plane with you in order to assist you in the process of Ascension—these and others have brought the message time and time again, and it is one you shall hear more and more and more often until all are awakened.

"What is it to forgive," you ask. "How can we forgive when we suffer at the hands of another?"

Remember the lesson that the Christed Jesus taught you: to suffer leads to forgiveness. It is an opportunity to move beyond the suffering to the knowing and into the state of Love and Grace. We understand that in your human condition, in your times of pain and difficulty when another has done something which caused you great suffering—we acknowledge this is difficult for you to come to understand as an opportunity. But that is what it is. We do not ask you to immediately comprehend this; it is something we ask you to begin to consider. And if you plant the seed of this thought, this feeling, this consideration within you and allow it to blossom over time, it will begin to sprout a great and beautiful bloom at your heart center. It will be a wondrous flower, a flower that has the ability to transmute fear and anger and pain and suffering into love, into healing, into forgiveness.

There will come a time when you will begin to understand gradually, little by little, that in any situation there is a lesson for you. Whether you hurt another or another hurts you, whether you judge another or another judges you, whether you cause some type of suffering or disdain or evoke anger within another or whether one does this within you—this is an opportunity to learn, to grow, to move beyond the place of anger, the place of fear, to walk into the place of love. You will travel through a doorway called forgiveness, and that is the place you must come first. And once you walk through that doorway into Love and Light, in looking back along the path whence you have come, you will begin to see Truth—the truth that each moment, that each lesson, that each difficulty, problem or what you call mistake was exactly as it was meant to be. It was perfection in that moment. And in that place of love, you shall heal yourself completely. And knowing this, will you walk through that door? Will you walk through the door of forgiveness? And as you do, know that you forgive more than one person involved—that always you will be forgiving yourself as well as the other and every other person and event that led to this experience. And, as you move into the place of Love beyond the doorway of Forgiveness, you will begin to realize that each person involved existed within the Grace of God, and that you drew from the other whatever was given just as the other drew from you whatever you sent forth—the actions and reactions, one to another, were called upon on a level that was beyond your conscious self.

This is what you are meant to understand, for you are loved unconditionally. The Creator, the Divine in all forms, loves you without condition. God knows your perfection even when you do not. Someday you shall know it [your perfection] as well as that of all others, but until that time, simply begin with one small decision, with the statement: I will learn to forgive; I will learn to Love. I will forgive myself and from that shall grow the forgiveness for all others. And beyond that shall come the understanding that all was as it was meant to be, in perfection, so that if you look back upon your life, you will be able to love each moment.

Begin with an exercise for yourself, a very simple one. The first time you try this, think of a moment that brought you joy—any moment in your life when you felt great joy or great love, for they are one in the same. And as you are inside that moment, feel its perfection, feel it and know it. Love that moment; exist in that moment. It is simple to do this, yes, an easy task when dealing with a moment of joy. But the task I ask of you is not quite as simple. Think of something small that was a minor difficulty for you—something that perhaps made you mildly angry or caused you some very small amount of grief or pain, something more akin to discomfort—perhaps something as small as a discourteous person in the marketplace or workplace who was less than kind to you—it does not matter—any small insignificant event in which for that moment you felt discomfort. And now send love to that moment; look at it. Imagine the other person, imagine what might have led them to act or react in the way they did in that particular moment. Consider this moment your feelings and perhaps their feelings. Send that person love; send yourself love. Walk through the door of forgiveness, and on the other side feel the unconditional love for this person and for yourself. And as you love them, surround yourselves in Light. Feel the oneness with the other individual in question and LOVE them.

And each time you graduate through this exercise again and again and again, you may embrace the Universe in Love a little more. You will allow yourself to come into a higher state, to be able to forgive more readily and more easily. And so I ask you on behalf of the Light to perform this exercise as many times as it takes for you to come to the one moment in your life during which you felt the greatest pain from someone else, to the moment in your life which you would choose as the one that was your utmost difficulty, grief, suffering at the hands of another. Consider that. That will be your final destination. And you may have repeated the exercise only a few times, or it may take you years of repeating it again and again. It does not matter. Let go of any judgment concerning how often or how much you need to repeat this exercise. For what matters is simply that you do it, that you love yourself enough to come walk through the doorway of forgiveness.

In forgiving the other person, you step off the wheel of karma; it ends the cycle between you and another soul in which again and again pain has been passed back and forth in lifetime upon lifetime upon lifetime. You have the opportunity to release yourself from this and all it takes is that forgiveness leading you into love.

There are some who feel that forgiving someone who has hurt them will give the other person power over them—will somehow take away their own power—when in fact just the opposite is true. By choosing not to forgive, you choose to perpetuate this cycle of pain; you also choose to give the other person your power and leave yourself powerless, for power is in forgiving and power is in Love. And if you truly love an individual no matter how much that one has hurt you, no matter how much suffering you may have endured at the hands of another, if you can but love that one, truly love them, then you have the power. It is the power of the Light, and it flows through you as surely and greatly as ever it could. You are Love, and you exist within Love, and in that place, where all is forgiven, where you know great love—love for one who has been enemy as well as love for one who is friend and most of all love for the self in all forms—when you come to that place, the power at your disposal is greater than you have ever known, for you have the ability to manifest joy and love and light within your life.

Recognize that there is also the possibility that by giving this gift to yourself you are healing others as well. You are certainly raising the vibration of the planet and her people. And so, dear children of Light, we beckon you. The Council of Light calls upon you, and we invite you to take back your power, the power God intended for you to have—the power to love, to be loved, to know Love, the power to live in Light.

The first step is forgiveness. You were granted the gift of being able to forgive. It is a gift and a responsibility, for you may choose it or not choose it. If you choose this gift, then you open to all manner of Love, Light and Joy within your lives, but if you relinquish this gift, you are also relinquishing your responsibility to come to the place of Ascension for yourself and all creation upon this World. We can only remind you that you have the gift and ask you to awaken to it, to open to it, for as you begin more and more to forgive and to love, to heal the wounds within yourself, so you will open to greater gifts, to the flow of the Universe, to the Light in your life, and you shall be of great service to the Light within this world. So be unafraid; practice the exercise; take the steps; allow the blossom of forgiveness and love to flower, to expand, to grow knowing, dear children, that you are loved. And the closer you come to Grace, the more you will understand that the step that led you there was forgiveness through Love. And so on behalf of the Council, I, Metatron, send you greetings of Love, of purest Light from the Creator. Feel the Oneness. You are blessed; you are loved.

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