I am a sinner. I fall short in so many ways. And yet, I know that there is good within me. As John Steinbeck says in East of Eden of one of his characters, "[He] is packed to the top with good and evil". When I read that phrase, it stirred something deep inside of me. There is a literary term that also captures this juxtaposition of light and dark, called chiaroscuro.
As children, we are taught that there are good people and there are bad people. But what of the good people that make bad choices? And is there not a drop of good in those people locked away in prisons? I believe that there is. Debbie Ford, author and self-help guru has some fascinating things to say about this in her book, "The Dark Side of the Light Chasers".
We lead ourselves in to a very precarious place when we think of ourselves as fully one or the other. We are both...striving ultimately to rid ourselves of sin, but to know that we are loved "yet when we [are]sinners".
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