Be a Pioneer!
Practice Forgiveness
The Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance invites
you to
assist us in globalizing the healing spirit of forgiveness
by supporting the establishment of
International Forgiveness Day
as the world’s first annual global holiday.
www.forgivenessday.org
The Pioneers of Forgiveness are a network of San Francisco Bay Area
citizens committed to the establishment of an official global holiday and other
related projects for the nurture and celebration of the spirit of
forgiveness. International Forgiveness
Day is to be observed annually on the first Sunday of August in all
(approximately 300) of the world’s countries and territories by the year 2005.
The Pioneers of Forgiveness support the International Forgiveness Day project in several ways:
·
Creating
public awareness of and participation in Bay Area celebrations of International
Forgiveness Day
·
Extending
their network globally to millions of other pioneers
·
Funding the
International Forgiveness Day project
To create your own participation as a Pioneer of Forgiveness, you may after
reading this brochure send in the pledge form on the back. For further information, please write, call
or e-mail us.
Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance
20 Sunnyside Ave., Suite A268
Mill Valley, CA 94941
415/381-3372
noelmcinnis@mediamessage.com
Forgiveness
is the release of all hope for a better past.
-Alexa Young
Four decades ago humankind adopted its first global icon ,
the image of the Whole Earth, a symbol that transcends all religious, ethnic,
political, social, economic and other structures and issues that divide
us. Thus far, the wholeness of our
planet is the only representation of unity and oneness with which every human
being can identify.
It is now the fullness of time to establish an annual holiday
that likewise transcends all such divisions, exemplifying the same universality
of spirit that is inherent in the Whole Earth image. Our candidate for this holiday is International Forgiveness Day.
We feel quite certain that when hundreds of millions of
individuals and groups worldwide are annually observing International
Forgiveness Day, national and international leaders will be persuaded to make
it the world’s first global holiday.
International Forgiveness Day is a holiday whose time has
come, for it is increasingly probable that a critical mass of receptivity to
forgiveness now exists in the collective consciousness of the human species.
This receptivity is indicative of potential willingness to resolve the
grievances that fragment humankind and the planet, a willingness that is now
susceptible to mobilization on a global scale.
To the extent that leaders perceive themselves to be the political custodians of their constituency’s grievances, receptivity to forgiveness must become plainly evident as the direction in which our species is moving as a whole. Nothing less than a global parade of forgiveness is likely to inspire the world’s leadership to get in front of it.
How
I know I have forgiven someone
is
that he or she has harmless passage in my mind.
-Rev. Karyl Huntley
The
Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance
The Worldwide
Forgiveness Alliance is a non-profit, tax exempt educational foundation
dedicated to globalizing the healing spirit of forgiveness. Our mission is to do this by establishing
the first global holiday, International Forgiveness Day. Our other goals include:
·
employing the Internet and other media to
promote universal awareness that practicing forgiveness contributes to
·
better health;
·
stronger, more lasting and more loving
relationships;
·
greater abundance, prosperity and financial
resourcefulness;
·
a more real and lasting sense of self worth and
purpose;
·
a deeper sense of connection and security in the
world;
·
enhanced freedom, joy and laughter on a daily
basis.
·
supporting all peoples of the world to include
the attitude, practice and healing process of forgiveness into every aspect
daily life;
·
implementing specialized forgiveness trainings
to assist those who are already in the work of healing, and training
forgiveness counselors in processes of conflict resolution.
Sustaining the Project
Never
doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens
can
change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
-Margaret Mead
The
International Forgiveness Day initiative is sustained by the uncompensated work
of a handful of volunteers, whose dedication to the project is conditioned by
requirements of livelihood and other essentials of self-maintenance. Accordingly, our progress is in proportion
to the emergence of livelihood from the project itself.
The
ultimate measure of the project’s relevance in the eyes of those it serves
includes their willingness to fund its endeavor. The modest donations of millions will demonstrate the synergetic
power of the International Forgiveness Day initiative far more dramatically
than can any other funding source.
Your
tax-deductible donation, made payable to the “Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance”
and mailed to the address on the next page will be greatly appreciated (i.e.,
increased in value) by the energies thus liberated.
The Pioneer of Forgiveness Pledge
As a Pioneer of Forgiveness:
_____I am willing to be the difference I would like
to make real in the
world.
_____I am willing to model the freedom of those who
are for something
and
against nothing.
_____I am willing to release my attachments to my
fears and to negative
experience, thereby enjoying greater well-being: peace of mind,
health and happiness, and the
loving understanding of one
another that assists us all in knowing who we truly are.
_____I am willing to support the Worldwide
Forgiveness Alliance by
networking information about its initiatives to empower forgiving
consciousness, and am willing to receive periodic updates from
the
Alliance to assist me in this networking.
_____I am willing to encourage my friends and others
to be Pioneers of
Forgiveness.
_____I am willing to contribute a minimum of $25 to
the Worldwide
Forgiveness Alliance in support of its
forgiveness initiatives,
including the campaign to make International Forgiveness Day a
global holiday. (Make checks
payable to WFA at address below.)
Name (please print) _________________________________
Address:
City, State & Zip:
Telephone: Fax:
E-mail: Website:
Worldwide Forgiveness
Alliance
20 Sunnyside Ave., Suite
A268
Mill Valley, CA 94941
415/381-3371
www.forgivenessday.org