Adolfo Quezada and Loving Yourself for God's Sake

This week's reading is found on page. 246 of Spiritual Classics edited by Richard Foster.

A counselor by profession, Adolfo Quezada's work, and his life, has brought him eye to eye with the brokenness present in this world. Hope is found, for Quezada, in the assurance that God's forgiveness offered to us is enough, that God's faith in us is enough, especially when we ourselves are unable to muster up the strength to forgive and believe. In this week's passage, look to see if Quezada's words compel healing in the cracked places in your life -- do you find his approach soothing?

1. Quezada urges us to set our guilt before us, to be specific about the wrongs we have done, and then, after having made restitution as best we can, to let them go. Is this difficult for us? Why or why not?

2. How does Quezada understand the past, and how does he describe the redemption of the past? Do you agree with him?

3. Are there ways that -- after we admit our own faults -- we can relax and let them go?

4. How can we keep from reliving over and over the wrongs that we have done?

**Next week, we will read a passage from Evelyn Underhill, p 253 in Spiritual Disciplines**