He lost his job, but still, he kept searching. Finally, in one last desperate effort to find his son, the father placed an ad in the Madrid daily newspaper. All is forgiven. I love you. It is said that on Saturday, eight hundred Pacos showed up, all looking for forgiveness and love from their fathers.
Forgiveness is at the heart of the Christian faith.
I see so little evidence of it in my work. As I explained in the issue of Reaching Out you received in the mail this week, the season of Lent is a time for introspection and self-examination. The baggage that most of us carry contains a lifetime of stored-up anger, resentment, bitterness, grudges and guilt. They are the ugly residues of our having been hurt - and of our having hurt others. This is sensitive and dangerous territory.