Passage of Time

Does the passage of time really heal all wounds? Or is it just a pretense of life; something professed rather than having intention or purpose? We live our lives believing that we are ok and that we have always made right decisions and done no wrong to anyone. We never think that we have made wrong decisions, actions (sins) that will effect us later in life. Forgotten and never to be brought up again ̶ so we think. You may then ask what am I getting at?

When we take a look at our lives in relation to natural law, we find that the laws are in effect 24/7. Laws like the Law of Karma, and the Law of Cause and Effect. Our wrong decisions and actions whether we remember them or not, they are always with us. They just go into the archives of our minds where we don't think of them again. However, these two laws tells us that time does not cover up or do away with our wrong actions and decisions. We are responsible for everything that happens in our life from the beginning to the end. It is because of wrong actions and decisions that we in later years develop sickness in our bodies, cancer, alzheimer's, dementia or some other physical or emotional problem.

We work hard looking for something new to bring about true happiness, love, joy and understanding into our life. We don't think about any of the wrongs of (that) the past make during our life. We don't think or believe that they will come back on us in later years. Even if we do think about them, it's only for a moment and then we put them out of remembrance forever.

We are good at believing that we can do no wrong and that if we do, nothing will really become of it. We understand that sin is nothing more than wrong actions, wrong decisions that we have made that cannot affect us in any way; at least some people do. Actions and decisions are just a part of life.

When we do think about our wrongs, we rarely experience any kind of feelings of guilt. We didn't worry about them at the time and they don't effect us now. However, do our wrongs of the past effect us today? If so, is their a way for us to correct those wrongs and get on with our lives?

The answer is yes. We can move on by recognizing the fact that the source of our wrongs started with us and is on going. Recognizing this, we can then take responsibility for all those wrongs and make restitution for them. How?

How indeed? Recognition is a starting place. Recognizing the source of a problem by sitting down and review our life. Meditating on it in order to understand how our wrongs are affecting us now. Is it something that we can put our finger on? Was it something that happen last week, last month, maybe last year or the year before, or maybe even many years ago? As we review our life we will find the source of the our problems. Once we recognize the source and how it is affecting us now, we can make new decisions to correct those problems.

Sometimes we have had problems with another person and that person has died. Can we right the wrong we had with them? Yes, we only need to call out their name within our minds and sincerely ask their forgiveness. A simple thing to do, and the so called dead will hear us and will forgive us.

If there are other people we have wronged who are still alive but we have lost track them, we can do the same thing we did for the deceased person. We can try to find out where they are living and go to them, or write to them and ask their forgiveness.

One person in our life that we do more wrong to than any other person is our spouse. Even after asking them for forgiveness time after time, we still continue to do wrong to them. It can get to the point where they can take no more and they say "I've had it, I cannot forgive you for that..." However, it is up to us to make every effort to correct our wrong action and make every effort to be forgiven and do no more harm to the one you love. This can be the most difficult thing for a person because of our. Non-corrected wrongs with a spouse is often the source for a divorce and long term hatred.

Our wrong actions and decisions are a source of problems that accumulate in our lives and is a source of problems in later life. Even if we believe in reincarnation we know that the reincarnated life is often plagued with karma and it must be dealt with. If not, it will continue from life time to life time until it is dealt with.

We must make a review of our lives in order to keep us from developing problems in the future. By dealing with problems now, as they come up can set us on a higher spiritual path of true love, joy and happiness.

In an attempt to correct all the wrongs in our life, maybe the words of the Dalai Lama can help. He said "What makes you a better person is: - all what fills you with compassion, - makes you more sensitive, more detached, more amiable, more human, more responsible and more respectful of ethic."

This is good advice for any person who desires a life free of guilt and fear over our wrong actions and decisions of the past.