…that we often tend to slight serious meditation and prayer as something not really necessary. To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt […]
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All In the Family
Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation. ~ Exodus 34:7b (NIV) The sins of the father lead to children punished? […]
Continue reading »A Life Sentence
Guilty of gluttony, an affidavit of the facts? A court reporter’s fingers would ache with the effort. The verdict? A given. But sentencing? How long? The finder of fact will know previously, all efforts failed at rehabilitation, a tough case, […]
Continue reading »The Guilt Dump Dream
When amends have been made, lessons learned, responsibility nurtured, maturation triggered…still, guilt lingers. For years. Decades, lifetimes, and beyond… guilt converges, amasses, amalgamates, melds like plastic peanuts in a land dump, perpetual, imperishable, perdurable. Useless. Toxic. Malignant. Pernicious. Toxic waste […]
Continue reading »Learning to Lack Guilt
Guilt is one thing in a court of law… either an accurate assessment or a distortion of justice. But what about the mass of us, the “good girls” — or boys — who feel guilty without adjudication or even justification, feelings of culpability especially […]
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