1. Our brokenness cuts deeper than just the times when we recognize it needs to be fixed.
  2. We were lost. We didn’t know where we were going or which way to turn. We had been driving around in circles for hours with nothing to show for it. And now we weren’t sure how to find our way home - and losing hope by the minute.
  3. A new life in Christ Jesus is our hope. Not only that, Jesus is our access to God.
  4. Reconciliation with God affirms the worth of our persons, and it banishes the inhibitions and fears, as well as the resentments and desire for revenge, which create gulches between us and those around us.
  5. Stories like Onoda’s offer an interesting parallel to our life in the Gospel.
  6. Here, we read the mystery and majesty of the incarnation of the Son of God wrapped up into a single package
  7. But there is something far more serious and important: being reconciled to our Father in Heaven.
  8. The only sea of tranquility that can unite God and man and bring brotherhood among us is found in the Word and sacraments.
  9. God lit within these ashes the fire of a promise: whoever they touched, that person became clean.
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