We are not far into our Lenten pilgrimage before a much more disturbing reality confronts us head on. The Psalmist shakes us from the delusion of any false sense of security we may have in ourselves. “Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord.” When faced with the reality of who God is—the Creator who both knows and loves us through and through—our immediate response is the same as Isaiah in the temple or Simon Peter in the boat. We are awestruck by the tremendous majesty of God and the realization
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