I have a friend who is estranged from a family member. My friend wants to end the estrangement and is willing to let bygones be bygones. My friend sent her sibling a letter expressing her desire to get back together and forget the issues that divided them. She never got a response. It’s a sad situation. We can try to reconcile but it takes two to make it work. Part of the lyrics from the song, It Takes Two to Tango, read, “You can haunt any house by yourself / Be a man or a mouse by yourself / You can act like a king on a thrown / There are lots of things that you can do alone / But it takes two to tango two to tango.” The best one can do is to be open to reconciliation. If the opportunity presents itself, embrace it. Let the past rejected attempts go and be grateful it happened. If it never happens, one can be at peace knowing he/she gave it his/her best shot.
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Poem for Today ~ Sunshine After Cloud
Sunshine After Cloud
Josephine D. Heard
Come, “Will,” let’s be good friends again,
Our wrongs let’s be forgetting,
For words bring only useless pain,
So wherefore then be fretting.
Let’s lay aside imagined wrongs,
And ne’er give way to grieving,
Life should be filled with joyous songs,
No time left for deceiving.
I’ll try and not give way to wrath,
Nor be so often crying;
There must some thorns be in our path,
Let’s move them now by trying.
How, like a foolish pair were we,
To fume about a letter;
Time is so precious, you and me;
Must spend ours doing better.
Positive Thought for Today ~ Patience Pays Off on Many Levels
Patience Matters
We hear a lot about the importance of patience when striving for an important goal or reaching something we’v always dreamed about. How much more important is patience in waiting for someone we love to get their life together? I’ve witnessed families fall apart because there was no patience with one who is struggling to figure it out. I’ve also witnessed the opposite where families held the door open and waited and their waiting paid off in reconciliation. Patience does pay off on many different levels..
Poem of the Day ~ Reconciliation
Reconciliation
Else Lasker-Schüler
A great star will fall into my lap. . .
We would hold vigil tonight,
Praying in languages
That are carven like harps.
We would be reconciled tonight—
So fully God overwhelms us.
Our hearts are only children,
Eager for weary-sweet slumber.
And our lips would kiss each other,
Why are you fearful?
Does not your heart border upon mine—
Your blood always dyes my cheeks red.
We would be reconciled tonight,
If we clasp each other, we shall not perish.
A great star will fall into my lap.
A Better Life ~ Build Bridges
Today tear down the personal defenses preventing you from loving those closest to you. Toss away resentments, anger, and grudges. They do no one any good. Build bridges to those you love. One day you’ll be waiting and seeing those you love walking toward you over the bridge you built.
A Better Life ~ It’s Time for Peacemakers
A peacemaker is one who has the ability to reconcile differences. Peacemakers search for ways to bring us together. Peacemakers find the path through difference and long held grievances. Peacemakers are needed in families, the workplace, and in global communities.
