It is tempting to use our spiritual habits as a smokescreen to avoid cleaning up our relational messes. We think that if we just pray more, read our Bibles longer, and attend enough meetings, God will overlook the trail of wreckage we left behind in our active addiction. Jesus radically corrects this thinking. He tells us that our relationship with Him is directly impacted by how we handle our relationships with others. Making amends isn’t an optional step; it is so urgent that Jesus says we should pause our worship to go make things right. Reconciliation takes immense courage. It requires us to look someone in the eye, own our specific actions, and apologize without making excuses. When we do the hard, humbling work of clearing our side of the street, we rebuild the trust we destroyed. We prove that our recovery is real, and we open the door to genuine peace. | 
