Lord, today I choose to remember…
How greatly I am forgiven because of how greatly I have sinned. My life can show forth your handiwork because you have redeemed me from a pit too deep for me to climb out of it. And you did so by getting into the pit with me.
How relentlessly you pursued me. I ran and ran and ran, and you chased me still.
How patiently you have taught me. Sometimes the same lessons over and over. Sometimes sweet discoveries of beautiful truth for what seems to be the first time. Sometimes re-awakenings of truth once learned, but somehow forgotten.
How completely you have loved me. Your love is complete because YOU are complete, not because I have somehow earned it.
How painfully you endured the cross for me. You despised the shame. Your pain is my gain.
How powerfully you transform me. I’m a tough case, but your grace is tougher still.
This is my communion. This is my eucharist. This is my worship.