Striving to undo past harms is hard
This post is further to my post ( undinae.livejournal.com/7630.html) regarding the confession by icarusancalion of past wrong doing and trying to undo that wrong.
In reading through the comments, I found this comment by elfwreck , looking at the issue from her point of view as a Pagan witch. icarusancalion.livejournal.com/894371.html
Very well put and contains a wonderful quote which I reproduce below.
"Each of us from the moment of his or her birth exists in an environment in which it is easy to do evil and hard to do good.... If I know somebody very well, in ten minutes, if I set my mind to it, I could perhaps say to them things so cruel, so destructive, that they would never forget them for the rest of their life. But could I in ten minutes say things so beautiful, so creative, that they would never forget them?"
[Bishop Kallistos Ware, in "Image and Likeness: An Interview with
Bishop Kallistos Ware," ParaboaT, Spring 1985, pp. 62-71; on pp.
66-67.]