Forgiveness Ceremony

We had the chance to participate in a very moving ceremony in our kampung (neighborhood). On the first day of Lebaran (week long celebration at the end of the month of fasting) hundreds of our neighbors came together to greet one another and, more importantly, ask for forgiveness of each other for know and unknown wrongs. By the time we got to the end of the line, Elissa was overwhelmed and cried her way through the last twenty people or so – it was so clear how much our friends long for forgiveness and release from guilt.