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Blessed are the Peacemakers

This resource invites individuals and communities to engage in the transformative journey of forgiveness and peacemaking. Through meditation, lectio divina, and practices of reconciliation, we explore the path to healing amidst hurt. By acknowledging our shared humanity and the dignity of each person, we learn to forgive and seek forgiveness, allowing our communities to thrive. Emphasizing restorative justice over retributive measures, this guide encourages everyone to admit wrongs, share stories, and cultivate compassion, creating a world rooted in healing and understanding.

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Blessed are the Peacemakers

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  1. Blessed are the Peacemakers Reconciliation Seeking Healing

  2. Practicing Justice Practices of Meditation and Lectio Indwelling Forgiveness and Healing/Compassion/ Peacemaking

  3. Choice to Forgive Tell the Story Release or Reconcile Name the Hurt Recognize our Shared Humanity Hate or Revenge Forgive

  4. Seeking Forgiveness Admit the Wrong Witnessing the Anguish and Apologizing Ask Forgiveness Renew or Release the Relationship

  5. Creating a World of Forgiveness Words Cultivate Forgiveness

  6. Transform Suffering Restorative or retributive Justice

  7. Stretch!

  8. John 8:1-11

  9. One on One How do you see yourself forgiven and forgiving in the community?

  10. Ubuntu We do not live in isolation We are interconnected

  11. 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

  12. 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.

  13. Shared Humanity – Body of Christ Everything is celebrated within the community. .

  14. Releasing your Burdens

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