God’s mercy is always there to wash away, to forgive, to erase that sin
long before I did what I did,
long before I failed to do what I should have done.
God only waits for me to claim the mercy already prepared for me
and offered to me in prayer and in the sacrament of reconciliation,
that I might be set free of what burdens and haunts my heart.
God has mercy to spare:
eternal springs and rivers and oceans of mercy to spare.
Many of us spend a good part of our lives struggling to believe
that God’s mercy and love are truly meant for us.
And many of us spend a good part of our lives struggling to forgive
someone who has hurt us deeply.
Sometimes the only way we can forgive those who have hurt us
is to entrust them to the mercy of God,
God who has so generously forgiven us
who find it so difficult to forgive one another.
long before I did what I did,
long before I failed to do what I should have done.
God only waits for me to claim the mercy already prepared for me
and offered to me in prayer and in the sacrament of reconciliation,
that I might be set free of what burdens and haunts my heart.
God has mercy to spare:
eternal springs and rivers and oceans of mercy to spare.
Many of us spend a good part of our lives struggling to believe
that God’s mercy and love are truly meant for us.
And many of us spend a good part of our lives struggling to forgive
someone who has hurt us deeply.
Sometimes the only way we can forgive those who have hurt us
is to entrust them to the mercy of God,
God who has so generously forgiven us
who find it so difficult to forgive one another.
