A Ronin's Journey: Chapter 18

December

I continued reading the Ragamuffin Gospel, highlighting and copying it. One excerpt about our dark pasts I absolutely loved.

“We all have shadows and skeletons in our backgrounds. But listen, there is something bigger in this world than we are and that something is full of grace, and mercy, patience, and ingenuity. The moment the focus of your life shifts from your badness to his goodness and the question becomes not “What have I done?” but “What can he do?” release from remorse can happen; miracle of miracles, you can forgive yourself because you are forgiven, accept yourself because you are accepted, and begin to start building up the very places you once tore down. This is grace to help in every time of trouble. That grace is the secret to being able to forgive ourselves. Trust it.”

That principle is that we all have shadows and skeletons in our backgrounds. Yet the moment I shift the focus from my badness to Jesus’s goodness, I can start to forgive and accept myself because God has.…