Younger Self....
I was in top form. After Cliff died, I was averaging a book a year. driven to fill my empty hours with meaning.
But after publishing Cliff’s autobiography and my romance book – the two books I really enjoyed writing – I promised myself I wouldn’t publish another book until I had completed my “legacy forgiveness” book. My main goal in writing this book was to encourage others to forgive - at least the ones who were asking me for help.
My deadline was January 17 which I met – but then I made the mistake of looking at it again – and this time something shifted.
I remembered my younger self – poised at the brink of tragedy – ready to take the flying leap of forgiveness and then in mid-air being swarmed by doubt because of the many public misinterpretations of our intention to forgive.
I was so helpless back then. I thought everyone knew better than we did so when they questioned me – I questioned myself. Since I had no easy answers, I just kept telling my story as a clumsy defense. It had worked for us. How and why? I wasn’t sure.
It’s only now that I think I have found the answer to the questions hurled at us. I have uncovered a conceptional framework that I want to share.....
It’s all in the number #5.
In this new draft, I start with identifying the five main life spheres of forgiveness – this was a recent discovery. Once identified, I propose a five-step forgiveness process of “letting go” in each sphere. Meanwhile I expose the inner conversations we have within ourselves that often turn into an inner debate.
Finally, this leads me to the description of the five branches that are needed in a customized support program for forgiveness to sustain its healing power that leads to a renewed intimacy. Something that Cliff and I participated in without even knowing it.
So even though I still want to encourage, inspire and enable others to forgive, I no longer have that as my main goal. In this book, I want to give my younger self a conceptual framework that fits the complications I was experiencing first hand in my very public choice to forgive.
So, I’ve changed the name of the book. This time the title is “Impossible! … forgiveness ... to the power of five.”
I’m writing this one for my younger self.
If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass - and you get up each time - you will reach your destination. – Jonny Kim
But after publishing Cliff’s autobiography and my romance book – the two books I really enjoyed writing – I promised myself I wouldn’t publish another book until I had completed my “legacy forgiveness” book. My main goal in writing this book was to encourage others to forgive - at least the ones who were asking me for help.
My deadline was January 17 which I met – but then I made the mistake of looking at it again – and this time something shifted.
I remembered my younger self – poised at the brink of tragedy – ready to take the flying leap of forgiveness and then in mid-air being swarmed by doubt because of the many public misinterpretations of our intention to forgive.
I was so helpless back then. I thought everyone knew better than we did so when they questioned me – I questioned myself. Since I had no easy answers, I just kept telling my story as a clumsy defense. It had worked for us. How and why? I wasn’t sure.
It’s only now that I think I have found the answer to the questions hurled at us. I have uncovered a conceptional framework that I want to share.....
It’s all in the number #5.
In this new draft, I start with identifying the five main life spheres of forgiveness – this was a recent discovery. Once identified, I propose a five-step forgiveness process of “letting go” in each sphere. Meanwhile I expose the inner conversations we have within ourselves that often turn into an inner debate.
Finally, this leads me to the description of the five branches that are needed in a customized support program for forgiveness to sustain its healing power that leads to a renewed intimacy. Something that Cliff and I participated in without even knowing it.
So even though I still want to encourage, inspire and enable others to forgive, I no longer have that as my main goal. In this book, I want to give my younger self a conceptual framework that fits the complications I was experiencing first hand in my very public choice to forgive.
So, I’ve changed the name of the book. This time the title is “Impossible! … forgiveness ... to the power of five.”
I’m writing this one for my younger self.
If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass - and you get up each time - you will reach your destination. – Jonny Kim
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