Living Debt Free

Forgiveness is the key to experiencing the awareness of God in all Its Majesty.

In the Lord's Prayer, we are taught to forgive us our trespasses or debts as we forgive those who trespass against us or our debtors. The word as is the operative word here. For a little word, it has a lot of punch.



I am forgiven in the same measure as I forgive. So how am I doing?



Usually I feel I do very well. However, recently I received a deeper insight about this entire passage in its relation to prosperity. Prosperity is my conscious awareness of the abundance of God surrounding me; freely given and freely available in my life and the life of others. My prosperity is enhanced or is blocked in accord with my forgiveness practices. O.K. so I have a pretty clean slate, why is my business or my bank account not where I want it to be? Have you ever asked that question?



The answer came that I must be debt free.



Ah, ha, I said, "I am debt free, I owe no one, except for my house. And no one owes me anything, I have forgiven all financial debts. So show me the money!"



Really, are you debt free in your emotions and in your mind? Do you have thoughts that people might owe you something, like their time, talents or treasures? Do I, God owe you anything?



Well this question opened Pandora's box. There were a plethora of people in my mind whom I felt were indebted to me because after all, look what I had done for them. This included friends, family, children, acquaintances, the list was endless. Can you believe it, I am a martyr! Oh the Humanity. Even though I helped others from a seemly giving heart, I had an underlying expectation that they some how owed me.



Wow, I spent two hours pouring over my debtors and doing the work of forgiveness. Becoming aware of the areas in which I need to forgive is the first step in the forgiveness process. Next comes praying for and letting go of the expectations of others (and myself for that matter) that I hold in my heart. Then comes the freedom and the removal of blocks in my life.



This may take awhile, but the process has begun. Now that I am aware, I am excited to see how my life, my business, and my bank account unfolds to express the love of God as I do the work of forgiveness.

©oneness of life productions 11/2010