In the silence we may become aware of how much we feel, in some way or other, we are “victims”.

In the silence we may become aware of how much we feel, in some way or other, we are “victims”.

Of course we have all in some way been the victims of other people’s anger, of their selfishness, of their ignorance. We may feel that schoolfriends, teachers or colleagues, or possibly our families have done us harm, have destroyed our confidence. Buried hurts may have lain in our hearts unattended for years. They rise to the surface when we are quiet.

So in our prayer we may become aware of having suffered injustice. And we are upset about it. That is the first stage. The second is working with the feelings that come out of that awareness – our anger, our desire to get even, our resentment, our withdrawal, our coldness.

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