November 22, 2010

• Mistakes

  To err is human, it is divine to forgive.

  It's a platitude so easy to say or write, and like most platitudes, much more interesting when one has the perspective to understand them.  Ostensibly, this particular saying relates to the Christian faith.  It is human to err; it is a matter of existential importance.  The ontology of fallen humanity is a sinful state, fraught with error and miscommunication, villainous intent and self-centeredness.  Forgiveness, on the other hand, is a taste of divinity; divine when one is forgiven by God, and a piece of that, when forgiven by a fellow human.

  I have made an error recently that may never be ameliorated.  It is emblematic of my own recklessness and tendency to sin.  In a sense, it has been forgiven, but the consequences are staring at me with a lambent gaze, limning my own ugliness with an artist's preceision.  I am reminded poignantly of my need for the divine.  For grace and atonement come only through the blood of Christ.  I have no other advocate than him.

  May his mercy amaze me.

  Amen.

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