Help Readjusting My View

Pre-Christmas Reconciliation service was lovely and timely. I had been feeling like I was losing focus and some of my patience (or lack there-of) and anger issues were resurfacing. Also some guilt that maybe or maybe not was justified.

There were eleven priests on hand to administer the sacrament. Having been away so long I was not sure if it would be a “communal penance” service or if it would be a combination of self-examination and face-to-face. It was the combination.

I was able to speak with a priest I’d not met before. But he was exactly the person who I was supposed to talk with. He spoke with familiarity and kindness, but he also pointed out that perhaps I was beating up on myself. And I needed to quit. And I needed to believe that all my sins could be forgiven, were forgiven by God. Maybe I just needed to hear that so I could catch up.

When I left I was still teary, but smiling. God is good.

~ by throughadarkglass on December 26, 2007.