05/04/2016

Good morning.

It melts ice.
It breaks down walls.

It opens doors.

It builds bridges

It heals wounds.

All in all, it’s a pretty useful word, is the little word “Sorry”.

There used to be an advert for the film “Love Story”…plastered on bill boards the length and breadth of the land declaring the utter nonsense that

“Love means never having to say you’re sorry”

What tosh! Love means having to say you’re sorry countless times! When, at last, someone gets off that big high horse… my ego, my pride… and says the magic word that breaks the silence, and makes things right again.

So to all those people I might have hurt just trying to get a cheap laugh at their expense…sorry! That feels good! Clears the air, makes the peace.

And how hard was it? Not so hard really.

I tell couples at weddings about a guy who goes into the office on a Monday, and things haven’t been going too well at home…over the week-end, His pal takes him aside and says,

“Charlie, Charlie, there’s a little word I’ve found very useful in my relationship, and it’s that little word “sorry”. “I know,” says the guy…”but, How can I get her to say it!?”

Well, maybe it’s our turn to say it. And watch the doors open; the bridges get built;

the silences be broken: the ice melt: the wounds heal.

Lord, teach us the power of sorry…show us when we should say it…to you and to the people who need to hear it from us. Then let the healing begin. Amen