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Todayās poem focuses on āReconciliationā - a tough topic, that we can all too easily skim over. Having just spent the day on an excellent āemotional intelligenceā course with Andrew Scott, one of the standout elements of the day was his passion for the stories/narratives we weave around ourselves, and - particularly - around others ā¦ which then tend to become self-fulfilling prophesies - especially dangerous if those are ānegativeā stories (āhe never listensā, etc).
I have made an other of you.
And you have made an other of me.
Stephen has done a lot of work on forgiveness (including the difficulty of being able to truly forgive, and the damage that can be done by being forced to say you forgive when that stage hasnāt been reached mentally) - and encourages us to truly see the person behind the picture we have drawn:
to read the hope, the aspiration, the desire,
that makes no sense to us,
no sense at all.
to seek reconciliation and relationship. It feels a bit āMiss Worldā, but would āworld peaceā ever actually be possible with a bit more of thisā¦
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Thank Bex. Iām aware of Stephen Cherryā writing. Particularly his book on humility Barefoot Disciple. Heā got an angle on things which is unique and which I much admire. I wrote a review of Barefoot Disciple, must drag it out and publish somewhere.
Heās written a book on forgiveness .. that I havenāt had time to read yet!! We were originally thinking of creating some kind of conversation around that but we didnāt have the capacity .. maybe one day!!