The real meaning of forgiveness
don’t look back

A long time ago (2 months), I posted a story called The Descent. In that post I told the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. When Hades warned Orpheus not to look back or he would lose his bride, I said I was sure I would understand what that meant for my own escape from hell when the time came.
I got it!
I was just now reading a blog story called Why Can’t I Write? The answer is, you can’t write if you keep looking back. You can’t write if you worry about what someone, anyone, is going to think. The answer is you gotta just let it flow. The answer is you can’t be nice, you can’t be correct, you can’t be appropriate, you can’t be careful. You can’t keep checking to see if your readers are following you, or you’ll lose your muse.
Jesus, that badass, said, “Those who have ears, let them hear.” That’s it.
You remember my little sister, the one who wrote to me that I was crazy and I needed help? Well, I didn’t have ears. I thought she was crazy. But now I got ears, you got ears, all God’s children got ears, and I know she’s right!
That’s forgiveness. That’s the only way it works. You can’t forgive something until you got the ears to hear the truth in it.
That really frees me up. If somebody doesn’t like what I write, is that my problem? If they can’t find any truth in what I have to say, is that my fault? Was it my sister’s fault I couldn’t hear her? Was it Hades’ fault I didn’t know what his instruction meant?
This is big.
