Can the broken cup be mended? The ceramic pieces arrive in the mail from a friend, one of many smiling in a photograph above my desk, a photo from my baptism thirty years ago. "Careful," she writes, "the pieces are sharp." So we approach neglected relationships carefully, not because they are so fragile, but because they can cut.

Photo of a cherished but broken coffee mug from the Abbey of Gethsemani.
Photo and prayer copyright 2014 by Danny N. Schweers.

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