BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS

ReconciliationSeeking Healing

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editation and Lectio

Forgiveness and Healing/Compassion/Peacemaking

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Choice to Forgive

Tell the Story

Name the Hurt

Forgive

Release or Reconcile

Hate or Revenge

Recognize our

Shared Humanity

Seeking Forgiveness

Admit the Wrong

Witnessing the Anguish and Apologizing

Ask Forgiveness

Renew or Release the Relationship

Creating a World of Forgiveness

WORDS CULTIVATE FORGIVENESS

TRANSFORM SUFFERING

RESTORATIVE OR RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE

Stretch!

John 8:1-11

One on One

How do you see yourself forgiven and forgiving in the community?

Ubuntu

WE DO NOT LIVE IN ISOLATION

WE ARE INTERCONNECTED

Shared Humanity• Every person has dignity and is important to

the community. When one person hurts another, the whole is hurt. When one person is forgiven, the community can be healed.

• Every person is capable of great good and great evil. No one is born a rapist or murder. We all begin as children. Listening to the story is critical.

• Everything can be forgiven. For a person, family, community, or nation to live in freedom, forgiveness must happen.

“Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin a new. “ Tutu

Restorative vs. Retributive Justice

The United States has over 2 million people in the prison system.

Approximately 71,000 of the 2 million are children

Each year these numbers increase.

Shared Humanity – Body of Christ

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Everything is celebrated within the community.

Releasing your Burdens