26 Days to what!

I  was watching television last week and I saw a program (an Oprah re-run, I think) and a woman named Lyanla Vanzant, who was a guest.  She has a new book out titled, "It takes 21 days to Forgive Someone".  Wait a minute, I'm a slow learner!  It has taken me closer to 26 years to forgive some people in my life and some, I am still working on!  I can guarantee you that if I start right now, this minute, I will not complete the forgiveness cycle in 26 days!   But I listened!  Then I learned that she was the child of an alcoholic and was born in the back seat of a cab and that Lyanla means "Great Mother" in the Yoruban tradition (whatever that is) and that Ebony Magazine named her one of its "Hundred Most Influential Black Americans".  Now that is commendable!  It is a list of 100!

So I ordered the book and I'm waiting on it.  If I can learn anything that can help me, I am for it.   I liked two of her quotes:   "Forgiveness does not erase the memory of an experience; it neutralizes its impact".  Love and believe that quote and have seen its truth happen in my life.   It's when I am  past talking or thinking about the whole sordid memory:  it's letting it go into the wind, knowing that I will be the better for it.

And the other is something crazy that she said on the show, but it is so wise:  "When you see crazy coming down the street, cross the street"?   How true, true, true.  We often allow things to happen and we can't plead innocent!  We allowed it to occur!