True Sorrow is the only way to heal a broken heart

True sorrow is the only way to heal a broken heart. Each time you grieve you are offered an opportunity to forgive and be forgiven, but only if all the hate that was causing your grief had been removed from your heart. You must forgive both them, and yourself too.

How strange is it that we must use some of the love we felt for that other person to repair the damage caused when it is torn asunder. If we look a little closer we soon discover that it is not a lack of love or a failure to love that is causing us so much pain. It is the hate.

Like salt on a wound our feelings of hate continue to rile us up and aggravate the very wounds we desperately wish would heal so we can get on with our lives.

True sorrow for the loss of what was once so beautiful, when combined with forgiveness that releases us from the terrible desires of hate, is the only way to restore the peace of mind we seek.