Conversations With Cinthia

What do you do with your own moral failures?  Today Cinthia talks about when you know you have gone beyond “nobody’s-perfect-everybody-makes-mistakes” territory and ventured into real harm.  Everyone has been there – those times we shock ourselves and rock our own self-perceptions with the depths of our bad choices.  You may even have experienced remorse so deep that you didn’t want to continue living.  In these states, guilt and shame become like termites in your mind, eating away at your sense of worth, even while another part of your brain is trying to deal with the rest of your day.  Isaiah 1:18 (NLT) says, “’Come now, let’s settle this,’ says the LORD.  ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow.  Though they are red like crimson, I will make them as white as wool.’”  This does not imply a casual cover-up, a smoothing-over or minimization of injustice.  This is cosmic -level cleansing, and it is the only kind that can truly settle our debts.  So why is it hard to engage with Go