Relationships are filled with “landmines” – potentially explosive situations and issues that are hard to deal with without stepping on them. Philemon was a Christian living in Colossae. Onesimus was his slave who had run away, possibly stealing from his master as he left. Somehow, Onesimus had encountered the Apostle Paul, and became a Christian. Paul gives us an important demonstration of reconciliation in the letter he write to Philemon as he sent Onesimus back to his master.