God Looks Through Sin and Evil (Kathleen Norris)

God can look right through whatever evil we have done in our lives and get to the creature made in the divine image.  I suspect that only God and well-loved infants can see this way.  Peter denied Jesus, and Saul persecuted the early Christians, but God could see the apostles they would become.  Maybe that’s why we worship—to respond to this grace.  We praise God not to celebrate our own faith but to give thanks for the faith that God has in us and in others.