Yesterday, God had my attention. He dragged me, kicking and screaming, face down into His presence,as I searched His heart for answers for my hurting heart, a heart bearing the scars of history.... answers to questions like:

How sorry is sorry enough?

What does forgiveness look like?

Can I ever do anything to make up for all the hurt and the mistakes that I have made that have affected the lives of others? 

God, could you show me? 

Yes.

As far as the east is from the west, my sins are forgotten.

Forgiveness looks like Jesus, who bore my burden on Calvary.

I can never do enough to make up for my sin, but Jesus did. and He can.

"Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it, But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."

"But because of His great love for us,God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive in Christ even when we were dead in our transgressions- it is by grace that  you have been saved."

"Now to Him, who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to HIM be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations, for ever and ever!"