This Crazy Journey

As I prepare for my 100 mile walk to forgive my mother in prison, I am forced to face the fear of realizing that I've become so comfortable with constantly being at war that I don't know how to be any different.

This tool is more powerful than anything that's ever existed in our world. It can be used at either a tool to create or a weapon to destroy. The question is... which one are you going to use it for?

In our heads we play a movie trailer of a memory on repeat. This trailer only highlights the worse parts of our experience with that specific individual or circumstance. The first step to being able to forgive is to learn to shift the memories that play inside of our minds. We can't forgive someone that we hate.

Often times we feel like we just can't find or earn love no matter how hard we try. We wonder what we've done to not deserve it and why we can't ever get it. It may be our subconscious preventing us from being able to accept love from anyone because our own anger and caution is holding us back.

A big thunderstorm is coming in at our property, and you can watch as it rolls in. I compare the journey to forgiveness to this storm that's rolling in with big dark clouds, loud thunder and bright lightning. I explain how the path to forgiveness is understanding that you're going to have to walk into the darkness in order to get to the other side and find the sun.

Often times when we are going down the path of learning about ourselves and searching for happiness, it's the closest relationships that can be holding us back from moving forward. In order to create the life you want you have to make the hard decision of letting go of those that are preventing that reality.

In this episode I discuss the memory I have from the day my mother asked me to frame someone else for the murder she committed. I discuss the journey you and I are about to go on.