"I'm hopeful that whoever is elected, that he begins to restore relationships and unite the groups," Vincent said.
In America and Canada, "parenting coordinators" are ordered and supervised by the courts to help restore relationships between parents and children identified as "alienated".
"There are so many people battling cancer, fighting to keep their marriages together, struggling to restore relationships with their children," he said.
Hay's own declared intention is, rather, to go "beyond the image of the isolated poet in order to restore relationships to the center of the Romantic story".
He can restore relationships, heal disease or addiction, put families back together, and transform hearts.
Restorative processes generally bring together the victim, offender, family members and community representatives to discuss the offence and decide collectively what should be done to restore relationships and repair the harm caused.
Using the imagery of an extravagantly fecund world of nature, rabbinic thought expressed its view of the all-inclusive effects of the restored relationship.
God restores relationship with himself through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus: he shows his face to us and – as St Paul says in II Corinthians – our own faces are "unveiled" as we advance towards God.
We CAN support them, pray with them, learn to walk with them, and perhaps find our path into a future together, in a restored relationship with the earth.
If you make an assumption, misspeak, or learn that you've offended, a genuine, "I'm so sorry!" can make a world of difference in maintaining or restoring relationship.
He later said that this was one of the periods he had most enjoyed, restoring relationships with the farming groups who had been alienated by his predecessor, the abrasive Edith Cresson.
