Integrity that we explored and reflected upon in the previous issue of Magnet calls for atonement, understood as at-one-ment, becoming one, becoming whole.
An essential challenge here is to work through and heal from the painful feelings and experiences we have carried with us into midlife.
“At-one-ment” involves reconciliation—making peace with self, with others and God, something that most of us find a real challenge.
Reconciliation
To experience atonement, we must come to terms first of all with guilt over our own wrong doings. We need to forgive ourselves for our foolish choices and decisions, for messing up our lives, and turning a deaf ear to the deepest longings of our soul.
We need to let go our grievances against others for the real or imagined damage they have done to us. We need to forgive and reconcile with people who we feel put us on the wrong track or stood in the way of fulfilment of our dreams.
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FR JOSE PARAPPULLY SDB
