Dr Eames spoke of the problems still to be overcome to achieve a lasting peace. The pain of change for many of our people has been almost unbearable. At times that price has demanded forbearance and courage of the highest order. Acceptance of those we disagree with calls for the questioning of attitudes which were a protection of what we believed essential to our own individual tradition. Those people who retain painful memories of previous hurt must never be forgotten, he said.
Memories are a crucial ingredient of our lives.
But it is what we do with those memories which marks us out as individuals made in the image of God.