A Latin spiritual journey with discerning hearts, from ashes to glory.

Day 17.

God's steadfast love and forgiveness.

A reading from the book of the prophet Micah chapter 7 verses 18 and 19.

Who is a God like you?

Pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of your possession.

He does not retain his anger forever because he delights in showing steadfast love.

He will again have compassion upon us.

He will tread our iniquities underfoot.

You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Today's scripture draws us into the heart of God's steadfast love and mercy.

He does not retain his anger forever because he delights in showing steadfast love.

These words from the prophet Micah reminds us of the boundless mercy of God

who longs not to condemn but to forgive, to heal,

and to restore. God's forgiveness is not something we earn. It's a gift freely given. Yet this

gift calls for a response from us, a willingness to turn back to him with contrite hearts.

Len is a time to embrace this call to repentance and to trust in God's promise to

cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. No matter how far we may feel from him,

his mercy is always greater. The Desert Fathers knew that Pat's forgiveness often began with humility

and the courage to face one's own weaknesses.

Abba Moses the Black said,

The one who knows his sins is greater than the one who raises the dead.

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