I remember seeing a rather badly made movie about the life of Joan of Arc on television a number of years ago. I believe it starred Milla Jovovich. The film opens with the young Joan in church at the confessional box. When she has finished her confession and received absolution, the camera begins a long, sweeping pan of the girl running and leaping wildly for joy across a stream and through fields of wildflowers. The scene goes on, and on, and on... and it begins after a few moments to seem utterly ridiculous.
Except...
Except that's how it really feels.
When the worst is over, and whatever embarassment you may have felt at having to say your sins out loud has evaporated, and you no longer carry within you the weight of all that has separated you from God, and you have been granted a fresh start.
You can say with Anne of Green Gables, "Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"
And actually, that "new day with no mistakes in it yet" can start at any time. Each moment, you can begin anew in the grace of Christ.
"It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:22-23, KJV)
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