FORGIVENESS"Forgiveness means that we dare to face what we have done. We dare to remember all of our lives, with the failures and defeats, with our cruelties and lack of love. We dare to remember all the times we have been mean and ungenerous, the ugliness of our deeds. We dare to remember not so as to feel awful, but so as to open our lives to creative transformation.
Forgiveness is God's creativity breaking in and transforming us. Forgiveness means that our sins can find their place in our path to God. No failure need be a dead end.
In the eighteenth century there was a famous Japanese artist called Hokusai. He painted a vase with a superb view of the holy mountain, Fuji Yama. Then one day someone dropped the vase! Slowly he glued the pieces back together. But to acknowledge what happened to this vase, its broken history,he lined each join with a thread of gold. The vase was more beautiful than ever before."
--Timothy Radcliffe, OP
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