Newly Resurrected

Today I had the opportunity to go to confession.  I strongly dislike going to confession before I go, I mean, who truly likes going and admitting to themselves and to God all of the ways they have struggled to honor Him? Mmm, not me.  I am ashamed and guilty and I just usually don't want to do it.  But I know that Jesus invites us to come to Him.  He calls us to Him, to purify our hearts and reunite us to Him. And as soon as I walk into the confessional, I feel peace. Peace that we have a loving and merciful God.  How lucky are we to know that our God loves us and is always seeking for us to draw closer to Him! God is so incredibly good!

After I was absolved from my sins today, I went to pray my penance.  As I knelt in the chapel before the tabernacle praying the 1st Glorious Mystery - The Resurrection, I had a revelation.  It was then that God allowed me to realize that Confession allows for an immediate Resurrection.  My soul was cleans, revived to life, by the saving grace of reconciliation.  It was through confession that I was able to walk out of the tomb of my sin.  I have left behind the burial cloths of guilt and shame.  I have been made new even though I look the same.  I still carry my scars, just as Jesus did. He had them in his newly resurrected form so that people would be able to know and relate to Him.

Then he said to Thomas, 

“Put your finger here and see my hands, 

and bring your hand and put it into my side, 

and do not be unbelieving, but believe.”

-John 20:27

God is calling each of us to be resurrected.  Each of us to the sacrament of Reconciliation to be made new, to be revived in Him.  We may still have the scars of our sin after, but we have been forgiven.  And hopefully, if we let them, our scars will allow us to bring others to Christ.