I believe with all my heart that the mystery of forgiveness is the entire Gospel. When you “get forgiveness, you get it. We use the phrase “falling in love”. I think forgiveness is almost the same thing. It’s a mystery we fall into: the mystery is God.
God forgives all things for being imperfect, broken, and poor. Not only Jesus but all the great people who pray that I have met in my life say the same thing. That’s the conclusion they come to.
The people who know God well, the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God, always meet a lover, not a dictator. God is never found to be an abusive father or a tyrannical mother, but always a lover who is more than we dared hope for.
How different than the “account manager” that most people seem to worship.
This is an excerpt from the book Everything Belongs by Richard Rohr
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