Blotted Out

Our sins someday will all be blotted out,
each sacrilege, each blasphemy be gone,
each mystery too, each question, every doubt,
all drawn and quartered, shot and hung at dawn.

God sinless was from all eternity,
and presently by sin He's tainted not,
so will He and His friends forever be,
all flaws and faults forgiven and forgot.

It is for us to start the process here,
now to repent before it is too late,
to throw ourselves on God's own mercy dear,
and then in faith accept from Him our fate.

O God, blot out my sins before I go,
that I may come to You as pure as snow.

                            -- by Pete Voelz       6/08

The first saint to say God’s mercy is His #1 trait
was the great theologian St. Thomas Aquinas,
whose feast day is today, Jan. 28. Another was
St. Faustina, a 20th-century saint who said
that Jesus told her this in a vision.