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“One of the greatest challenges of the spiritual life is to receive God's forgiveness. There is something in us humans that keeps us dinging to our sins and prevents us from letting God erase our past and offer us a completely new beginning. While God wants to restore me to the full dignity of sonship, I keep insisting that I will settle for being a hired servant.”

“I still live as though the God to whom I am returning demands an explanation.”

“Yes, God dwells in my innermost being, but how could I accept Jesus' call: "Make your home in me as I make mine in you"?
The invitation is clear and unambiguous. To make my home where God had made his, this is the great spiritual challenge.”

where the father embraces his kneeling son. It is the place where I will receive all I desire, all that I ever hoped for, all that I will ever need but it is also the place where I have to let go of all I most want to hold on to. It is the place that confronts me with the fact that truly accepting love, forgiveness and healing is often much harder than giving it. It is the place beyond earning deserving and rewarding