Monday, November 9, 2009

Mercy

I have seen great mercy.
I have felt it. I have felt it come to rest upon me in sheets; happiness and sorrow and joy and peace.

In my wife's eyes I have seen mercy overtake scorn. I have seen it come from far away within and change her, for my sake, in an instant and completely.

My children have been graced with vast sums of mercy, here and there, there and in other ways, for mercy has stilled my hand and shut my mouth when there were better ways.

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