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Thayne's avatar

“Of course God loves the lost, the disobedient, the fearful.

“Who else is there?”

—Street, quoted in The Epistle to the Arkansans

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The imagery of the man carrying the heavy net behind him was so resonant to me. In an era of public and private self-flagellation with public notes app apologies and private hand wringing over past wrongs, we need a different, more effective answer to our feelings of shame and guilt over who we’ve been and what we’ve done wrong. We can’t wait for other people to cut us free, we’ve already been cut free, and lugging around those heavy nets full of garbage isn’t doing us any good. It feels tricky, to allow ourselves to recognize we’re already forgiven even while people are still angry with us. There’s a paradox in there somewhere. I’ll be mulling over this one for a while. Thank you.

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