Relief through avoidance

Fashion Shopping Petty arguments Jealousy Phone screens Tablet screens Laptop screens Computer screens TV screens Big screens Tattoos Affairs Piercings Real Housewives Say Yes to the Dress Downton Abbey Comic books Celebrities Freeways Helicopters Tinted windshields Sunglasses indoors What would you add to this list of ways to avoid facing the uneasy truce we have…

Plateaus of peace through reconciliation

How do we know that engaging in the process of reconciliation is in order? Why devote the time and energy required in a potentially uncomfortable process to resolve the warring factions within me when I am not assured of a direct, measurable outcome? What difference will it make? There are scores of reasons to suggest…

Negotiating peace

There are disparities between warring factions in my thoughts and feelings all the time. For most of them, I find an uneasy peace of sorts. I get to a position that seems right to me and stick with it. Since this week I am writing about the importance of reconciliation in developing community, I thought…

Beautiful as the sky

Reconciliation WORD over all, beautiful as the sky! Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost; That the hands of the sisters Death and Night, incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil’d world: … For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is dead; I…

Reconciliation

Many of us think of the first, or more prominent, meaning of reconcilation which says opposing parties can make things right with each other. Common use of this term involves religions and spirituality. Are sinners reconciled to God? Have the people who do wrong been reconciled with those they have wronged? The third meaning of…