One can understand how, in sensitive hearts, the knowledge of having betrayed the God one loves is not easy to overcome. But is not this the very depths to which God descends in order to meet us? Was not this the point of the shepherd leaving the ninety-nine to go and look for the one? The psalmist David knew what it was to blatantly dishonor God, yet it is he who wrote, “Blessed [Happy] is he . . . whose sin is covered” (Psalm 32:1). Forgiveness that makes it possible to delight in the loving mercy of God should never lose its novelty if wonder is to impel life forward so that we are not
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