Making Amends

"Unintended hurt is as common as branches breaking in the wind.  But it is the unacknowledged hurt that becomes a wound.  Just as our only recourse in falling down is to get up, our only recourse when we've hurt others is to clean up the mess.  This is known as making amends, a simple yet enormous act of integrity that restores trust, and trust, after all, is the soil that holds the roots of humanity."  Mark Nepo

What wisdom.  Making amends is one of the foundations of the very effective Twelve Step Program:  taking responsibility for how our actions have hurt others, and cleaning up the resultant mess.  Making amends.  I think it is also important to make amends to oneself.  In what ways have our choices and actions been a detriment to ourselves?  I think a good practice is to acknowledge in what ways we have hurt ourselves, and to forgive ourselves for those hurts.  

A good practice for both Passover and Easter.