I Honor the Divine in Every Person

Infinite Goodness is one Presence, expressing Itself as countless different forms — a single Source, everywhere entire. This Presence is God, the same Perfection active in everything that exists.

I know this same Perfection lives as my own identity, closer than any thought I have about myself, God’s own nature, held equally and directly as my own. I am this divine Perfection in personal form, Its direct activity here and now.

I recognize this same Perfection expressing as every person I meet, regardless of what they say or do. Their actions and their divine identity are two different things, and I choose to honor their unique divinity every time. If another person’s behavior troubles me, I remember that what touches one of us moves through all of us. As I know, we are that connected. Therefore, I forgive freely: I forgive the one who may have caused an offense, and I forgive myself for whatever offense I may have caused in return. I affirm forgiveness mends what looked broken and grows what is already whole between us. I release resentment and choose kindness and understanding in its place, practiced deliberately, for both of us.

I am grateful for the knowing that forgiveness itself is the givingness of God. I give thanks for the practice that restores understanding between myself and others.

I release this truth into the causative field of the Divine, knowing it is so. And so it is!

Rev. Tony Crapolicchio