Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?
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Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that's here.
Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.
In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.
Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
But there are some wounds that can never be healed.
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.
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