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“Lord, help us not to shy away from our own transgressions,
neither to hold the sins of others against them,
but to name sin with confidence that
your forgiveness has the power
to effect a just reconciliation in our world. Amen.”
— page 476, Common Prayer:
A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals
It’s the first Bible verse many of us learned.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that all who believe in him should not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)
God still loves “the world.”
God still longs for, in the words of the prayer we’ve been living with all week, “a just reconciliation in our world.”
What part can you and I play in that?
Time to get busy.
joescheets 
This is the struggle. How many times do you the dance with the same person over and over and over for 25+ years? I did learn in groups and therapy that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Does that apply here? I know that Jesus said 70 X 7, but I think I passed 490 a while back.
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