The
story about the Amy Biehl Foundation's work on healing and forgiveness
is evidence that without dialogue there can be no healing and
restoration. The courage to dialogue with "the enemy" when tears and
pain from loss and woundedness scream at you to stop, gives birth to new
life and new beginnings. The opposite is also true: when pain and
memory prevent us from entering into safe and uncomfortable spaces, the
intentions of the offender come out victorious and you remain a victim.
So, for me the question is how we can walk alongside and support the
offenders and victims so that they can risk becoming vulnerable again,
but this time for the sake of planting new seeds of hope for a better
world. In that sense we all become wounded healers, as Henry Nouwen
says. Thank you, Marianne Thamm for this article in The Daily Maverick.
Seventeen
years ago on 28 July 1998, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
granted amnesty to four young men who had been sentenced to jail terms
for...
dailymaverick.co.za
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