Carrying the weight of our own wrongdoing can be heavy, making it hard for us to live with freedom and love. Jesus takes that burden from us and offers us forgiveness and new life. In doing so, he also moves through us to set others free from their sins as well.

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When the people we love suffer, we suffer with them. While that’s a burden we want to carry for the sake of love, it can feel heavy and at times unbearable. Jesus can lighten that burden for us by connecting us with the endless love and energy of God and by filling us with hope.

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Jesus says, “Come to me, all you that are weary and carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.” One of the burdens we carry is the need to justify ourselves, to prove to others (and ourselves) that we have value. Jesus can take that burden from us and free us to simply be who we are. 

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Everyone experiences suffering. Rather than isolating us from others, pain can be a way for us to realize how deeply connected we are to others. Knowing that connection can help us grow in compassion and love. 

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When we feel pain because those we love are in pain, we are sharing in the suffering of Christ, who loves and cares for all people. And when we share in his suffering, he shares in ours. But it is not just the suffering of Christ we participate in, but also his infinite love and strength, which can enable us to deal compassionately with the pain around us. 

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God shows us forgiveness by filling us with the Spirit of Christ and using us to further God’s reign of love on earth. Along with absolution, God gives renewal and strength — sure signs of God’s complete forgiveness and acceptance of us as we are.

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Jesus knows that forgiveness is essential to growth and fullness of life. He embodies God’s forgiveness for us, and wants us to embody that forgiveness for each other.

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St. John Chrystostom said that the church is not a courtroom for souls but a hospital for sinners. Sin is a chronic condition, a propensity not to love. We confess our sins as an act of spiritual honesty, not as criminals waiting to be condemned but as patients seeking to be healed.

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Many people find that they lack the resolve or the willpower to maintain a spiritual practice. Rather than seeing it as an exhausting discipline, however, we can view any spiritual practice as an act of surrender. If we stop seeing spiritual practice as a battle we have to win but as something that we simply need to give into, it can help us sustain that practice over the course of time.

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