April 21, 2023

“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” (Jeremiah 17:9)

The poet Lord Byron said, “I am such a strange mélange of good and evil that it would be difficult to describe me.” 

That is true for all of us. Nobody is one dimensional, as much as we would like to categorize people as good or bad, us and them. The line between good and evil runs straight through the human heart.

Could this lead to some compassion for others and even for yourself?

“Set us free, O God, from the bondage of our sins, and give us the liberty of that abundant life which you have made known to us in your Son our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and
for ever. Amen.” (Fifth Sunday After the Epiphany – BCP)