No self-acceptance is possible if one is not accepted in a person-to-person relation.

A prayer room is a place where we can experience peace so that we can make peace later. A place where we can accept forgiveness so that we can live our lives as priests at work. A place where we receive our Father's acceptance so that we can love even those who laugh at us later in the day.

The girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things.

“Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”

Stay with him for a while, until your brother’s fury subsides—

until your brother’s rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

But Jacob himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.

Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.

Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his livestock in the field, he remained silent about it until they returned.

And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.

And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”

And he turned away from them and wept. When he turned back and spoke to them, he took Simeon from them and had him bound before their eyes.