A woman is dying, and Death comes to her. The woman, seeing Death, smiled and said she was ready, informs Ukr.Media.
“What are you ready for?” Death asked.
“I am ready for God to take me to Heaven!” the woman replied.
“Why did you decide that God would take you to himself?” Death asked.
“Well, how about that? I suffered so much that I deserve God's peace and love,” the woman replied.
“What exactly were you suffering from?” Death asked.
— When I was little, my parents always punished me unfairly. They beat me, put me in a corner, shouted at me as if I had done something terrible. When I was in school, my classmates made fun of me and also beat and humiliated me. When I got married, my husband drank all the time and cheated on me. My children wore me out, and in the end they didn’t even come to my funeral. When I worked, my boss shouted at me all the time, withheld my salary, left me on weekends, and then fired me without paying. My neighbors gossiped about me behind my back, saying that I was a womanizer. And once a robber attacked me, stole my bag and raped me.
“So, what good thing have you done in your life?” Death asked.
— I was always good to everyone, went to church, prayed, took care of everyone, carried everything on my shoulders. I suffered so much pain from this world, like Christ, that I deserved Paradise…
“Well, okay…” Death replied, “I understand you. There's only one small formality left. Sign one contract and we'll go straight to Heaven.”
Death handed her a piece of paper with one sentence under which she had to put a check mark. The woman looked at Death and, as if she had been doused with ice water, said that she could not put a check mark under this sentence. The paper read: “I forgive all my offenders and I ask for forgiveness from everyone I have offended.”
“Why can’t you forgive them all and ask for forgiveness?” Death asked.
— Because they didn't deserve my forgiveness, because if I forgive them, it would mean that nothing happened, it would mean that they wouldn't be responsible for their actions. And there's no one to apologize to… I didn't do anything wrong to anyone!
“Are you sure about that?” Death asked.
— Absolutely!
“How do you feel about those who have caused you so much pain?” Death asked.
— I feel anger, resentment, resentment! It's unfair that I have to forget and erase from my memory the evil that people have done to me!
“What if you forgive them and stop feeling these feelings?” Death asked.
The woman thought for a moment and replied that there would be emptiness inside!
“You've always felt this emptiness in your heart, and this emptiness has devalued you and your life, and the feelings you feel give meaning to your life. Now answer me, why do you feel this emptiness?”
— Because all my life I thought that those I loved and those I lived for would appreciate me, and as a result they disappointed me. I gave my life to my husband, children, parents, friends, and they did not appreciate it and turned out to be ungrateful!
— Before God said goodbye to his son and released him to earth, he said one last phrase to him, which was supposed to help him realize life in himself and himself in this life…
“What one?” the woman asked.
— THE WORLD BEGINS WITH YOU…!
— What does this mean?
— So he didn’t understand what God was telling him… It’s about the fact that you alone are responsible for everything that happens in your life! You CHOOSE to suffer or be happy! So explain to me, who exactly caused you so much pain?
“So I'm on my own…” the woman replied in a trembling voice.
“So who can't you forgive?”
“Yourself?” the woman replied in a tearful voice.
— To forgive yourself means to admit your mistake! To forgive yourself means to accept your imperfection! To forgive yourself means to open up to yourself! You hurt yourself and decided that the whole world is to blame for this, and they do not deserve your forgiveness… And you want God to accept you with open arms?! You decided that God is like a soft-bodied stupid old man who will open the door for fools and evil sufferers?! Do you think that he created a perfect place for people like you? That's when you create your own paradise, where first of all you, and then others will be well, that's when you will knock on the door of heaven, and for now God gave me the instruction to send you back to earth so that you can learn to create a world in which love and care reign. And the one who cannot take care of himself lives in a deep delusion that he can take care of others. Do you know how God punishes a woman who considers herself the perfect mother?
“How?” the woman asked.
— He sends her children whose fates are crumbling before her eyes…
— I understood… I couldn’t make my husband loving and devoted. I couldn’t raise my children happy and successful. I couldn’t keep a home where there would be peace and harmony… In my world, everyone suffered…
“Why?” Death asked.
— I wanted everyone to feel sorry for me and sympathize… But no one ever felt sorry for me… And I thought that God would definitely feel sorry for me and hug me!
— Remember that the most dangerous people on earth are those who want to arouse pity and sympathy for themselves… They are called victims… Your greatest ignorance is that you think that God needs someone's sacrifice! He will never let someone into Himself who, except for pain and suffering, has known nothing, because this sacrifice will sow pain and suffering in His world…! Go back and learn to love and care for yourself, and then for those who live in your world. And first ask yourself for forgiveness for your ignorance and forgive yourself for it!
The woman closed her eyes and started the journey anew, but only under a different name and with different parents…
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