{"id":358,"date":"2007-04-05T18:48:34","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T18:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=358"},"modified":"2009-11-26T03:10:21","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T03:10:22","slug":"forgive-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Forgive us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When we betray you, we betray ourselves.<br \/>\nForgive us <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every time we allow another person to belittle us, patronise us and walk all over us, we betray you.<\/p>\n<p>Every time we put ourselves down, think negative thoughts about ourselves and criticize ourselves, we betray you.<\/p>\n<p>Every time we see injustice and deceit and lies and remain silent we betray you.<\/p>\n<p>Everytime we scuttle past  the street dwellers feeling embarrassed and avoid the big issue sellers because we are in a hurry, we betray you.  When we give   no eye contact to those who hold out their hands for money, when we de-humanise people,  we betray you.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever we side with the powerful over the powerless and  the articulate over those with no words, we betray you .<\/p>\n<p>Whenever we choose to remain silent in the midst of injustice, whenever we are passive when faced with destructive behaviour, whenever we close our eyes to the pain of the other \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we betray you.<\/p>\n<p>When we laugh at others misfortune  and judge and criticise those who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come up to our standards \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we betray you.<\/p>\n<p>Everytime we vote for violence over peace and justice \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we betray you.<\/p>\n<p>Forgive us and help us to forgive ourselves<br \/>\nHelp us let others go and let ourselves off the hook<br \/>\nEnable us to lose life and find that which is more precious.<u style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/londongirlgeekdinners.co.uk\/?clue\">Clue ipod<\/a> <\/p>\n<ul style=\"display:none\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/i-to-i.irexnet.com\/?christmas_with_the_kranks\">Christmas with the Kranks the movie<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we betray you, we betray ourselves. Forgive us Every time we allow another person to belittle us, patronise us and walk all over us, we betray you. Every time we put ourselves down, think negative thoughts about ourselves and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=358\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}