All your deeds and words,

Each truth, each lie,

Die in unjudging love.

In Cynthia Bourgeault’s wonderful book, Mystical Hope, Trusting in the Mercy of God, she offers this verse from Dylan Thomas’ poem, “This Side of the Truth”. While I spent the better part of a morning meditating on just these lines, this only captures a small fragment of Ms. Bougeault’s enlightening message in this brief but very profound treatise on the “heart of the mercy of God”. Ms. Bourgeault reminds the reader that in this “Mercy all our history – our possible pasts and possible futures, our lost loved ones and children never born – is contained and fulfilled in a wholeness of love from which nothing can ever possibly be lost”. What a great meditation for the season of Lent. What a great read for someone in need of God’s loving mercy.