Good Intentions
The older I get, the more I notice how often I fail to live up to my commitments, how often I say that I will do one thing and end up doing something quite different, how often I am unwilling or unable to make good on my promises to myself as well as to others. […]
On Being with Phyllis Tickle – Sep. 18, 2020
“Forgiveness involves the grace of looking back at that from which we’ve all come and say, “Please may it, in some way, become an ongoing part of the kingdom of God while I’m here.”” On Being with Krista Tippett – Vincent Harding + Phyllis Tickle“Racial Identity in the Emerging Church and the World”: https://onbeing.org/programs/vincent-harding-phyllis-tickle-racial-identity-in-the-emerging-church-and-the-world/
On Being with Seane Corn – Sep. 16, 2020
“I always pray for the people who have hurt and harmed me, and just when I think I’ve forgiven them, I forgive them again, because always that energy will rear its head… Otherwise, I’m holding onto that shadow of anger; and the inability to forgive, they say, is a poison you take hoping someone else […]
On Being with Ira Byock – Sep. 15, 2020
“You know, Lily Tomlin, another philosopher in our time, said that forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past… It involves accepting that the past cannot be changed, while recognizing that it need not control our future.” On Being with Krista Tippett – Ira Byock“Contemplating Mortality”: https://onbeing.org/programs/ira-byock-contemplating-mortality/
