 We live voluntarily, in the basement. But for us to move upstairs, someone has to pay the rent. * * * Any choice we make to escape our debts, to dishonour our obligation, blocks the bridge over which we return to the whole. This is a dis-integration. The aim of meeting unmet obligations, and addressing obligations which have not been honoured, is that we may re-integrate with the whole: at - one - ment. Re-integration is our gift within the act of redemption. * * * When a Good Friend pays my debt, and releases me from the repercussions and weight of that debt, I am free to work and acquire something of my own. When I have a little in the bank, perhaps I may pick up the tab for someone else. In paying their debts, I settle my own. |
