If you make provision for the desire of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the creature instead of the Creator. (Maximos the Confessor)

Today I will meet with someone who holds a grudge against me. He has asked to see me. There are signals of a weirdly renewed anger.

I will listen. I am not sure what he may say, we have not talked for over two years. I roughly understand the source of the grudge. In the past I actively sought reconciliation.

Today I am prepared to give him a sense of vindication. I hope he will come away with a sense of victory. For me his source of anger is entirely unreal.