Sin ceases to be a defect which excludes, and comes to be participation in the mechanism of exclusion. - James Alison

... [I]t is our being bad brothers and sisters that leads us to be bad fathers and mothers, not our having bad fathers and mothers that has made us bad brothers and sisters.

The 'I', the 'self' of the child of God, is born in the midst of the ruins of repented idolatry.

But as we become stronger, more capable of words, happier in our discovery that God does indeed love us, then might it not be important that we learn to withhold the excessive tribute of our resentment from something which doesn't really exist?