Facing The Past

It is so much easier to walk away from a hurtful past than to confront the issues. And our hectic, transient culture makes it easy for us to start over far away from the people and places we have left behind. But we discover that we cannot remove the past from our hearts - it is there to stay. And the only hope for true peace with the past is to face it at its worst and, with God's help, to seek to forgive, to be forgiven, to make amends, and to be reconciled.

- Stephen Arterburn in "The Power Book"