Unifying God, who scatters Love with abandon,
In silence, the truth of our interior’s rise to the surface. Sometimes encountering your Presence leads us to identify the tension of our own inconsistencies. Open us to allow you to bring together the disparate elements of our experience. Fill us with the kind of wisdom that creates convergence rather than polarity. Teach is the kind of mercy that establishes peace. Gather us into living community today. Amen.
We can’t give away what we don’t have ourselves. This is why it is important to acknowledge our shortcomings, and learn how to forgive ourselves. Have we really accepted the forgiveness Jesus offers? When Jesus taught the disciples to pray, one of the words he used for forgiveness translated means, ‘to let go, to send away from oneself.’ When we forgive ourselves, we can send away the things that keep us from living fully. Letting go is not trying to change or blame, it is learning to make the most of who we are. Letting go includes accepting ourselves as human, not enabling behavior but allowing ourselves to correct our shortcomings. When we forgive, we loosen our fear and love more. May the Spirit move in and through us to become whole communities of forgiveness.
