It isn’t easy to feel less guilty for the sins I said I didn’t know.
My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens. -Ezra 9, WEBBE
Are they sins? Or must I ask what else they are? If we do not know them, then surely we did not mean them! And we shouldn’t feel guilty at all?
But what are sins? Are they only the wrong things we intended to do?
But what of the things we thought were right but have hurt another? Things that have caused great pain?
What do I call them? The sins I didn’t know?
May God be praised for His mercy for He has had patience with me with all my offences. How many times have I hurt Him without knowing what I was doing?
O how great is His Love, how great is His Mercy! For the countless times I failed, He never left, and He loved me just the same.
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"Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief", "Mend My Broken Heart", "Questions to God", "To Love an Invisible God", "Defending My Catholic Faith", and more - click here.
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