Preaching this morning on "Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors."
Which is a prayer for forgivingness, a committed disposition towards reconciliation, marked by patient persistence in peace-building and cultivating habits of mercy.
On the way back, on the skyline over the sea, a murmuration of starlings demonstrating the beauty of synchonised movement in a world so often conflicted.
At the same time, The World at One on Radio 4 reporting and discussion of Iran and Australia, both in very different ways, places of human crisis in this so often conflicted world.
Changed to Classic FM and found some light-hearted Baroque.
Over lunch watching Monty Don in Japanese Gardens, and the story of the rose called Peace. Hence the photo
Tonight reading again Dag Hammarskjold, whose words were quoted this morning:
"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, and what is soiled is made clean again.
That word 'again' -
a hope filled word,
a hope restoring word,
which we need to hear,
again and again.
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