Fresh look: Grace

Grief - The pain of mind produced by loss, misfortune, injury or evils of any kind; sorrow; regret.
The pain of mind occasioned by our own misconduct;
sorrow or regret that we have done wrong; pain accompanying repentance.
We feel grief when we have offended or injured a friend,
and the consciousness of having offended the Supreme Being, 
fills the penitent heart with the most poignant grief
 - http://1828.mshaffer.com/d/search/word,grief

The level of authenticity of love
is proportionate to the level of the
maximum boundary limits of pain, hurt and suffering you feel for the person.
How much you love
that person is equally the same of
 how much you care and concern for them,
therefore
 is the same on how much
(and up to what extent) you feel the same pain and hurt
whenever he/she is harmed.


Genuine love is like a double-edged sword. When you carelessly and unintentionally (overlooking what would potentially happen and realizing later on that you missed something on your estimation) let someone (whom you truly love) be hurt in pain (whether physically, emotionally, spiritually or any aspect considering the growth, maturity, gender, status, and season in life as a human being) especially through negligence or irresponsibility. You feel (and upon absorption of) the same hurt and pain. It produces a mixture of deep regret, stoned grief, unending reflection of the past, and momentarily repeated meditation of what you did wrong that continuously moving in progression going on beyond the limits of imagination. Furthermore, (possessing a great sensibility, and being significantly affected; which also are the 2 of many side-effects of genuine love) the accumulated sum is the combination of an overwhelmed guilt, a grave sin committed, and a feeling of the most evil person (in his/her life). 
"My guilt overwhelms me--it is a burden too heavy to bear"-Psalm 38:4
In short, the worse sinner of all.

To free our entrapped minds jailed inside the haunted dimension of memory containing doubts, shame, rejection, fear, insignificance, and insecurity; and to forgive ourselves, we need his grace.

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