He taught me that prayer is not an escape from real life but a passage toward it. Like him, we do have to dine with our enemies, to make ourselves known to each other, but he knew that if we are to face difficult truths, we first need a thorough outing of how we became ourselves, both as countries and as individuals. We are wounded and scarred and divided but we need to see ourselves, in all our brokenness, before we can mend.
