On the surface "Tribute" is a motion picture about a man who is diagnosed with cancer and about his response to that disease. But at a much deeper level, "Tribute" is about a man who is not reconciled to his own son. "Tribute" is about a father and son who needed to settle their differences. Like those characters in "Tribute," one of the persistent needs of our life is to settle our differences.

There are many ways that we try to settle our differences. Some of us try to settle our differences by taking flight. In so doing, we try to settle our differences by flying away from them. We try to handle our differences by not handling them. We try to settle our differences by ignoring them. We try to settle our differences by putting our heads in the sand like the proverbial ostrich. At other …