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It begins at home even closer: it begins "I"nside I have forgiven failures, failing in faith, inside me Have you? Until you do, it is almost too hard To forgive your imperfect parent, and therefore Father-in-Heaven Lest it seems, I speak ordinary, old, old-fashioned sermon or speech "Remember Mandela, South Africa, TRC? I was there!" While billions only speak it, I have to live it I did not want to; Mandela (OUR BELOVED MADIBA) made it policy In the bad old South Africa, poisoned by a white Minority, 300 years Still wanting NOT to share anything today; but we must for ourselves And for Jesus (or for Mandela, or for Gandhi: both graced South Africa) Yes, I have grown to love Forgiveness and Reconciliation in my heart There it must begin, or it cannot come out into this bloody world From the blood pump inside you, pure Jesus lineage can overflow Once the mind and heart come into agreement, concord, one accord (That's what happened at the Pentecost that birthed Christ's Church - When the disciples, dreading death after Jesus's Crucifixion, locked doors In the Upper Room, in Jerusalem, tarrying still: Fire in Holy Spirit fell!) The Holy Spirit tells me to love like Jesus and Mother Theresa (now Saint) Love till it hurts (and once hurt like that, NOTHING will ever hurt you & me) I forgive because I see the forgiveness of Jesus (What does it mean? Sins?) LOVE may begin in sin; but it flies with eagle wings, near the SON, forgiven We reconcile with the Parent Above; who is really everywhere, doctrines do not tell us all, only a start: God loved and offered reconciliation, but Truth Demands we confess: I was a dirty, dastardly sinner, until He washed me In the pure, precious blood of a Perfect Man, High-Priest after Melchizadek So, dear brother and sister, I do not list sins to make you mad That is only to assure YOU the Jesus way: Confess, Receive Grace, Live Free TRC in RSA: TRUTH and Reconciliation (& Commission Under Archbishop Tutu) Said anyone, white or black, who confessed their murders and sins Would not be taken to court; only one was (Wouter Basson) A whole nation forgave the white Minority under Mandela's mighty mandate To Love and forgive like Jesus, for BIGGER things: like saving a country From the kind of civil wars that rage on and on, fed by hate, all about US
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