Tag: forgiveness

As I walked here, I felt my father very strongly with me; he said, “Keep your attention on me,” but after a few steps my attention wavered, and again he said, “Focus, stay with me.” He let me experience the distance between him and me and how difficult it is not to be distracted by external stimuli. That led me to look at myself and have, somewhat, a feeling that I was failing. My own father, and I could not keep my attention on him. But it was as if he wanted to make clear to me then what the exercise really was: no one is perfect! We will be hurt, deceived, and things will be expected of us that we cannot live up to.