The Truth about Sin

Recognize sin for what it really is: a way to strip you of grace, goodness, and happiness. It may come in different packages, it may carry various promises, it may appear a delight to the eyes and good for food, but it's simply a means to deprive you of life and wholeness.

The measure we use to give, is the measure with which we receive--you cannot receive the fullness of God, without a full gift of self. To the extent we withhold, we cannot receive, because we withdraw ourselves from God through a conscious decision. This is sin, and its attachment. The whole of Love invites us in, but our sharing in communion is in proportion to the degree we give ourselves completely. If we only knew the suffering it caused God, our Beloved--the passion--we would not sin.