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Elizabeth Browning



Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Who can forgive?

Who can fully renounce a day?  Who can conceive of forgiving a whole life,
granting all in it pardon?  (Hafiz)


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God

Oh God you are the one
who sees us perfectly
who sees us as we really are

you know our days
our hours
our weeks
our years

you know our lives

looking back along our life
journey
must bring you to tears

for the hurt we have created
the mistakes we have made
the ways we have
violated

love

and yet
you came
your entered with us into
the depths of humanity
experienced us at our worst
 
you descended to earth
to the depths of sheol
only
to ascend

rising to that place
where you
see us fully
and wonderfully forgive
and love

Who can conceive of forgiving a whole life, granting all in it pardon?
 
The risen Christ
and so 
Easter
continues

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