Reconciliation demands a price.
Grace must triumph over bitterness, grief and the very human desire for justification and revenge.
Love compels us to forgive and restore
beyond our hurts,
our injures,
and cruel injustices.
We are joined not by our rights,
our triumphs and successes.
We are not ennobled by enforcing our beliefs.
We are knit together as we take our failures,
holding hands with those who have hurt and betrayed us,
recognising our responsibility to change our own hearts
long before we demand the same of others.
It may be a lonely road,
sometimes humiliatingly powerless,
but,
each footstep is marked
by an abiding proclamation
to love.