Amends and Renewals

We all have things we regret and people we've hurt through the years....unintentionally or not, we've all had our moments. Our lives are rugged paths, not smooth highways...that includes the things we bring on ourselves.

No joke, a lot of our misery is self-inflicted. What we do to one another is just as bad.

My screw ups have been unintentional; usually the culmination of my own stupidity combined with mitigating circumstances...but it's still no excuse.  Really, I don't know a good one for hurting others and could ever only offer apologies. Sometimes that helps....sometimes it doesn't.

What's a person to do in those situations?
How can amends be made when the offended person is inconsolable?

I don't know...but have been thinking about things like this lately...hoping some day to make things right.

So for today, Fifty Five Is The New Amends and Renewals... and like bathing in the Ganges, it is a spiritual cleansing that brings forgiveness...and most important, forgiveness begins at home.