Her sins,
which were many, have been forgiven; hence she has been shown great love.
Again love
has prevailed.
This woman
had great courage. Surely, she was aware that by coming to Jesus, He could have
ignored her and shown disdain.
However, she
wanted to change her life but even more she wanted to taste true love and
forgiveness.
Full of
tears of desire flooded her eyes when she met the warm eyes of Jesus. Everything
changed.
She suddenly
saw that someone respected her as a human being and looked at her with love. She
saw that she had a chance to begin again.
She desired
forgiveness and waited for Jesus' words -"Your sins are forgiven".
Love and
forgiveness is the central theme of actions of God.
This theme
should also be the goal for Christians.
Why
forgive?
Because
forgiveness brings peace and agreement. It brings joy to the heart of the one
who is forgiving and greater joy to the heart of the one who is
forgiven.
God loves us
and He is still forgiving.
We cannot
speak of true love until we forgive.
Until we
learn this our heart will be open only to someone. It will never be an open and
loving heart.
It will be
hard if partially closed growing in aversion, suspicion, jealousy, and even a
desire for revenge.
It will be a
restless heart, not peaceful because we cannot love God and hate man.
Today, we
can come to Christ, crying or weeping and touch His feet and ask for His
forgiveness.
Let us pray
also for His love to transform us and give us the courage and strength to
forgive.
Fr. Tom
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