The reading for today's session is Ps 136, followed by ongoing praise in the same vein involving my personal history of salvation. What a humbling and uplifting way of approaching this!
This is the end of this step that had me so worried at the outset. There has really been no abatement of the emotional turmoil to which I was concerned about adding by doing this step now, but undertaking these sessions hasn't added to that, as I thought it might.
The fact is that God's love is greater than our sin, and knowing our sin honestly and with open eyes just reveals God's love, his grace and mercy, more completely. It is a great temptation and trap to instead become stubborn and arrogant about defining sin for ourselves so that we can feel self-justified. But this keeps us from knowing God's tender care and great compassion.
There is so much more to say about this, but Caesar calls (as does my stomach).
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