(You may freely quote excerpts from this website as long as due credit is given to author Jocelyn Soriano and the website itakeoffthemask. Subscribe to Single Catholic Writer and get the free e-book "Single People Can Be Happy, Too!" "Questions to God", "Mend My Broken Heart", "To Love an Invisible God", "Defending My Catholic Faith", "Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief" and more - click here. Instead of losing hope, he trusted the heart of God. But in the end, if we do not recognize that all goodness comes from God, we’d never realize the depths of His mercy for us. Other people may have been more righteous in following God’s laws. He continued to believe that despite all of his sins, God can still forgive him.ĭavid found comfort in God’s heart.
After his great fall, he sincerely repented from his sins and he sought the mercy of God. David can be the man after God’s own heart not because of his perfection but because of his humility. That same heart from which the fountain of Infinite Mercy flows.Īnd then I realized something. Then I saw the image of the Divine Mercy, the image of Jesus pointing towards His heart that had been pierced for our sake.
How could it be? Considering the gravity of his sins, how could he be near God’s heart?
It came over me again, just when I thought I was already moving on, carrying on, healing, rising from the depths that have swallowed me whole. When we read the Bible, however, we’d know that he is the same man who had been guilty of murdering the husband of the woman he coveted to be his own. By Jocelyn Soriano FebruNo Comments It came over me again, this sudden sadness, sweeping like a wave, covering me, drowning me, throwing me again into a grief I couldn’t fight nor overcome. In the Bible, King David was the only man referred to as the man after God’s own heart.
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