Healing, Love and
Forgiveness Articles

Despite all the troubles we see in our world, most people have good hearts. In fact, I believe we have all been born with a great ability to both give and receive love. So what keeps us from loving each other? And what makes us so afraid to forgive?

I think the answer to these questions lies hidden in how we define the word, "wound."

Usually, we define this word as "what makes us suffer."

How else could we define it? As anything which "blocks our ability to love."

So what exactly blocks our ability to love anyway?

The answer lies in exploring the deeper questions about love and forgiveness, such as what makes love emerge in us in the first place, and what makes us stop loving? What makes us hate some people, and what exactly is "forgiveness"?

How about the people who find the courage to change their lives. What gives them this courage? And what makes some people so spiritual?

Admittedly, finding authentic answers to questions like these is hard at best. Certainly, no one has whole answers. Even so, I feel certain that if we can explore these and similar questions, that we can at least find some new and better starting points, places from which we can learn to become more loving beings.

This, then, is what we explore in this part of the Emergence Site: "what blocks our ability to love." We also look at what makes us love in the first place, along with what makes us fall out of love, and fall into hate.

We also examine the elusive quality of "forgiveness" and what makes it so hard for us to let go.

And throughout these topics, we remain blamelessly focused on what I believe is the key to these and all similar questions; defining our "wounds" as "BLocked abilities to love."