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I also have planned some upcoming book reviews on YouTube “Regine B Truth Seeker” and WordPress – wordgripactioncopywritingservice.com

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My goal is that more people, as Yah wills, begin and sustain their compassionate, forgiving and true relationship with their Creator & Abba through Yahushuwah.

A white garment awaits all those doing _ protecting _ following Torah in a covenant with Sovereign YAHUWAH. The blood of Yahushuwah paid for us to have all our sins cleansed.

Opportunities to support this work through the purchase of flower photographs will come in the near future.

Thank-you
Regine Baptiste

ReinYah Productions “Bring Nature Inside,” will be a branch of my small business where I will be selling photography pieces for your interior design needs. A pop of color from these photographs of flowers will brighten and beautify your space. Viewing a picture of the natural world will enhance and bring in an atmosphere of calmness indoors. Those who purchase my pictures will be supporting my efforts as a writer and small business owner. Stay tuned for where and how you can purchase these photography pieces of flowers.

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400 years. Let’s break those years into manageable blocks of time. Eight times fifty is equal to four hundred. 1619 – 1669 1669 – 1719 1719 – 1769 1769 – 1819 1819 – 1869 1869 – 1919 1919 – 1969 2019 What will the year 2069 look like? Before we can look forward to the […]

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Forgiving What You’ll Never Forget

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Forgiveness has been a controversial topic in the media lately. Months before forgiveness made its way onto the headlines, I just happened to be at my local CVS pharmacy and saw the book, “Forgiving What You’ll Never Forget,” by Dr. David Stoop.

Personally, I needed some clarity about forgiveness and that’s why I purchased the book. No one really talks about forgiveness on a regular basis. We tend to expect the topic of forgiveness to be tackled in the pulpit. It also can be too private an issue that we don’t want to reveal about ourselves in terms of how forgiving we are or how much we feel we need to be forgiven.

I wanted to be in an objective frame of mind as I was researching  my upcoming post on the very notable years of 1619 – 2019, the official date marking 400 years of the Atlantic slave trade from the coast of Africa to America. I thought forgiveness would be a good bridge to cross before I gather my thoughts commemorating the horrors of African American slavery.

You will find a more complete list of how many times the words forgiveness, forgive, forgave is used in Scripture in a Concordance of the Bible. I only quote a few Scriptural references in this post.

All too often, heavy topics like forgiveness cause people to not want to participate in discussions that expose themselves. I am choosing to view Scripture as a more authoritative tool towards gaining clarity on what forgiveness is.

I’ll like to start my book review by quoting some Scripture in the New King James Version translation. Some quotes will seem to be not connected to the issue at hand and others will be familiar to those in the habit of reading their bibles

Let’s begin:

Esther 7:7 NKJV “…but Haman stood before Queen Esther, pleading for his life….”

Mark 11:25-26 NKJV “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses ”

The prayer of The Messiah found in Mathew 6: – read this verse in the translation of your choice.

Luke 17:3-4 NKJV “Take heed to yourselves, if your brother sins against you; rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to you, saying, I repent, you shall forgive him.”

Mathew 18:32-34 “…You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant just as I had pity on you?”

These are various scenarios where forgiveness should be granted, forgiveness has been denied, and lastly the hypocrisy of not forgiving.

As you can see this topic on forgiveness is not an easy one. It is more complicated than choosing to forgive or not to forgive.

Forgiveness touches us all whether we admit it or not.

Some of us have observed how easy it is for some children to forgive. And we see that the older we get, the harder it is for us to forgive.

We don’t know how to forgive.  Those who were our guardians and parents at times found it hard to teach us how to forgive. It’s a struggle we all face.

Forgiveness is a multi-layered action. It can involve a simple first step of choosing to forgive and  gut wrenching internal steps utilizing your mind and heart.

The book, “Forgiving What You’ll Never Forget,” helps you to navigate your options towards how you should go about forgiving. Forgiveness is a communication skill that can be learned.

What caught my attention regarding the title of Dr. Stoop’s book is the fact that there are crimes, insults, events on an individual and national level that are hard to forget due to the level of  trauma inflicted on a physical and emotional level. Extreme pain that takes time to recover from.

We find in the news one tragedy after another reported. How do we heal in a culture where we are bombarded by crisis after crisis? When we report to our jobs on a daily basis, the most plugged in of our co-workers is the one who can inform the rest of group the surprising details of the unthinkable. Our minds need a rest from all the madness.

Dr. David Stoop’s tiny book is a slow read. Forgiveness cannot be rushed. On page 157, Dr. Stoop states, “a “too quick” forgiveness doesn’t help the healing process.”

On review of the quoted Scriptural references in this post, we find Haman not shown mercy or forgiveness. We find no remorseful statements by Haman, he just wants to save his own skin even though he planned genocide for hire. If you read the book of Esther you’ll find this to be detailed in the story. In contrast, the last Scriptural quote emphasizes that we ought to show pity and compassion especially when pity and compassion have been shown to us.

Forgiveness can be withdrawn and forgiveness can be demanded of us.

The media is notorious for instigating controversy where resolution is needed. Forgiveness  creates alot of emotion within our thought processes.

Page 103 of Dr.Stoop’s book states, “…if we try to forgive without experiencing anger, we are not really forgiving; we are merely trying to excuse the behavor.” This statement in Dr. Stoop’s book helped cleared up for me what healthy forgiveness looks like in the person doing the forgiving. This would obviously be an internal process before one can proceed with external forgiveness.

 Parents or guardians of children understand the childrearing principle that the more bad behaviors are excused, the worst bad behaviors will become. All of us learn to avoid bad choices from the consequences we suffer from the bad choices we make. 

Reading Dr. Stoop’s book helped me to gain a  right perspective of what forgiveness is. I was challenged to think on a deeper level than I thought possible.

On page 25 Dr. Stoop quotes Thomas Szasz, MD,

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget, the wise forgive but do not forget.”

This prompted me to contrast the statement of the Creator I believe in who desires to forgive. I also know that this same Creator will punish us when we sin.  Nevertheless, to those who believe in a Creator  know  that this same Creator forgives in a more profound way than any human can. This Scriptural reference below  from the book of Psalms details how complete that forgiveness from a Creator is.

Psalms 103:12 NKJV  “…As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.”

Pick up the book “Forgiving What You’ll Never Forget,” by Dr. David Stoop. This book will assist you into a deeper study on the topic of forgiveness and how necessary it is to our health.

We all need to be forgiven and we all must learn how to forgive.

With summer coming to an end, I just realized I hadn’t done a post in three months.

I’ve had plenty of dead end temporary jobs and interviews that I knew would go nowhere.

I guess life just not happening or moving forward as I wanted to has affected my rate of posting on WordPress.

I have two major posts that I’ve been working on though.

In the meantime, U-Tube has been my outlet for writing. While there, I’ve been reacting and engaging with other viewers.  You can make an impact in the comment section on U-Tube. I’ve been both bullied and cheered for my online rants.

Words just have to go outside and take a break. Looking down or looking straight ahead at words is alternative communication. A pure and healthy way to communicate your thoughts would be eyeball to eyeball in conversation. 

As summer winds down and people begin to stay indoors more, I’ll remember this past Summer’s walks at the beach, visits to the nursing home, late night revelations on U-Tube and the various neighborhoods I visited while job hunting.

Every so often I would marvel at natures’s beauty against the crisp blue sky of summer and just take a picture. No words needed.

Be on the lookout for my next two new posts.

What drives writers everywhere?

Letters.

Writers are in love with letters.

Letters that they can mold and shape into words. Words that come together into sentences that will impact the minds of people. Writers feel an urgent need to make an impression on the world around them.

Writers see a wrong and want to write that wrong away.

At least they think they can.

Writers just don’t come out of nowhere. More than likely they are fashioned and formed from the influence of other writers. Those particular writers whose strong ideas push them to write as well. Writers read alot and they have ravenous appetites at that. Much like a miner they won’t stop until they’ve found that glowing stone of information in the midst of a dark black cave.

Ideas swirl around the heads of writers everyday. And for that they are misunderstood.

The rhythms, beats, pulses, and tempos of words flow into sentences, then paragraphs and before you know it pages upon pages of a symphony of words all tuned into the parts that play from one harmonious thought to the next.

Writers love to write. Actually, they are madly in love with writing.

Ever heard of do what you love even though you are not going to get paid for it? Or rather do what you love and the money will come. Becoming an established writer is always congruous with how much money you are paid to write.

Money, the crushing reality for writers. The thing that gets in the way of writing. Writing for hire. Setting a fee to justify your written content.

Just like actors, writers have to take on jobs outside of writing just to feed their daily habit, oops, their love for writing. They make do when they are not paid on a consistent basis for what they love to do.

Writing has caught on as a way to put you on the map or to establish your credibility in a field of expertise. If you aren’t a published author then no one will take you seriously. Hence the reason I started this blog in the first place. This blog is a precursor to my writing a book. Those who are not writers by profession know that ghost writers will rescue them. They become famous alright, and their book in the Library of Congress establishes that fact for generations to come.

Writers dream of making it into: the Library of Congress too, as well as The New York Times best sellers list, required reading in grade school, middle school, highschool and college, blogger of the year, Pulitzer prize, National Book award, and the list goes on. Now that’s money you want to bank on while you are alive. Not so much the “Dead Poets Society,” I think I’ll pass on that one.

Real writers famous and not so famous write for just because. The reasons are as many as the stars in the sky. They are true writers from the heart.

When just one person likes their post, writers become ecstatic. They’ve made a connection! Just like the first time I had a teacher in my 10th grade English class write on my paper, “Keep on writing.” The only way I can describe that feeling would be like the thunderous applaud of 5,000 shouting “Encore, encore,” in a crowded theater. Or rather, “More, more!” Yes, fantasies do overtake writers at times.

Writers crave the attention that only reading from masses of people can satisfy. A writer wants that claim of conquering hearts and minds. The summit feeling of writing a great book that people are rushing to buy. That fleeting moment where you are spoken of as, “Now that was good book.”

Writers need support systems. Those who support writers  should be recognized as well. Part of a writer’s fantasy is,”I’ll like to thank __________ for supporting me all of these years.”

I would be in remiss if I did not acknowledge American Writers & Artists Inc. for reigniting my engine for writing. AWAI’s sister publication, “Barefoot Writer,’ details every month those who are make a living as copywriters and other writing professions. I love the stories they tell as well as all the fabulous writers at AWAI who are writing them. Thank-you.

Now writing for a living is not as easy as it sounds.

Nothing boosts a writer than the popularity of sales from their work.

It certainly takes a lot of courage. Courage in the midst of not being noticed. Even when you are tempted to write garbage (see fake news) to get noticed. Integrity and knowing that your name will always be associated with ugly words prevents most in it for the right (write) reasons to not go there.  Real writers don’t want to fall into a pit of deadly words.

Nevertheless, unknown writers live on for another day, hoping they’ll be discovered.

That their words will matter.

A writer that will be appreciated for the hard work, sweat and tears, sleepless nights thinking up ideas, and everything else they’ve sacrificed just to be a writer.

They just want to impart to the world true words that won’t be forgotten.

Writers have a sincere appreciation for other writers. We simply support other writers by buying their books. Buying e-books, hardcover books, magazines, and even taking books out of the library when space becomes an issue. If we really are into an author’s style, we will read as many books from that author as we can. I think that would go for writers and non-writers alike.  The love of writing is reciprocated in a circle of nurturing other writers.

Writers want others to become writers like themselves. No one can remember much about any topic unless it is in a book written well. How would architects, lawyers, plumbers, bridge builders, ship builders, true spiritual leaders, Naturalists, Chemists, etc. become who they are if the principles, directives, and terminologies of their professions were not written down? Clearly writers are the sustainers in any civilization.

Writers love to see reading and writing encouraged in children. My favorite toy to give a child is a book. A book they can come back to again and again. With each reading the child grows to discover some new insight. Now I know most adults in the western world are not still reading, “The Little Engine That Could.” Nevertheless, the lesson of unwavering optimism can stay with you for a lifetime and then some.

I know I can

I know I can

Become a writer.

Why?

Because.

My love for writing will pull me through.

Regine Baptiste

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