"Our sins are nothing but a grain of sand along the great mountain of the mercy of God." St. John Vianney

As horrible our sins are against the infinite love of God, they are mere specks in the face of God's infinite mercy. It is his mercy that buries our repentant sins in the depths of the ocean, never to surface again. Like his love, his mercy is beyond limit. Why do we hesitate to receive his mercy? For the same reason we block his love: pride of the heart. How foolish it is to let pride prevent us from loving God and from receiving his mercy! Yet, that is what we do every time we turn away from him and remain in our cell of death. We allow the blindness of our sins to prevent us from seeing that through the death of resurrection of Jesus, the door of our self-imposed cell is wide open for us. The hand of mercy reaches out to us to free us. It is our choice to trust or to remain in sin.