If the past had been cruel, and if an extended hand of love was cut, use the other hand and bandage it. People could of been and sometimes could be just as this. Cruel, Calloused, and Cold.
It is said, that if we ask our Heavenly Father Abba, our Lord, for bread, he will not give us a rock, or stone.
We could reach out to him, even with the scars on the hands. Lord let the pain of the past, be the last crumb of hatred, cruelty, whatever , as that is about all that the world has to offer, a crumb, something that will never satisfy.
Our God, spreads a table before us in the presence of the enemey. He satisfies our soul.
Psalm 23