Have you felt accepted?

There was forgiveness of sins in the Old Testament. It wasn’t as if Jesus came to die on the cross so that God could forgive sins. He could do that anyway. It wasn’t as if Jesus died on the cross in order to make it convenient; so that people would no longer need to sacrifice

Selfishness

Meditating on the sinfulness of the world this morning, I realized all the ways I continue to be implicated in it. A flypaper hangs in the center of the room Attracting random floating things Full of dead flies and hair and dirt Smells like shit Tastes like vomit The room is my soul The paper

Meditating about sin and its effects this morning

One sin creates Reverberating echoes, A pebble dropped In the pond of the universe. It puts out the light Of stars and Sets galaxies off Their course.