And he kissed all his brothers and wept over them. Afterward his brothers talked with him. The kiss for each brother — all his brothers — is the covenant act of reconciliation for each individually. The talking that follows the weeping is the talking that only becomes possible after the weeping has done its work. The application: the reconciliation that proceeds through weeping and kissing before talking is the reconciliation that has the emotional honesty to sustain the conversation that follows.

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