You are not the worst thing you’ve ever done.
Shame may make you feel like you are the worst thing you’ve ever done. But you aren’t. We are so much bigger, deeper, richer, vaster, and mysterious than the worst thing we have ever done.
Forgiveness is the key. Forgiving ourselves for the worst thing we have ever done takes courage and humility. And time. It takes making amends to ourselves whom we have hurt most profoundly and making amends to others, to those we have hurt. It takes tears and patience.
Life takes courage, but thank God we have God to love us, and She does. “Be brave, my daughter.”
Yes, it hurts but be brave. You are not alone.
May you find compassion for yourself. May you find the courage to love life and forgive yourself.
You are Life itself. May you know that and love yourself and Life and God. Live the Mystery. Be the Mystery. Because you are.
The Way of Love They are dear to me who run not after the pleasant Or away from the painful, grieve not Over the past, lust not today, But let things come and go as they happen. -- The Bhagavad Gita