No matter how great our sins, He still loves us so immensely.
Like in the reading from Joshua, He has removed the reproach of sin from us.
As St. Paul writes, he has reconciled Himself to us.
When we repent and turn back to God, He embraces us so richly, like the father who runs after the son who returns. The son, and we, receive what we don't deserve: great mercy. The father even embraces the older son, who doesn't think the younger son deserves such celebration.
But in God's eyes, it is truly worth celebrating that the one who is in sin turns to new life again and is a new creation. And as a new creation, each of us is called to be transformed from the heart so that we extend the mercy we have received from God to others, that all the world may rejoice in such an abundant gift given so freely and richly.
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