Beauty for Ashes

I hear you calling out to me as I sit lost in sin.
I saw your hands of love stretched out to me and I looked up and said, "I'm so dirty Lord, I'm sitting here in the mud,
You said,"  Take my hand, I'll wash you clean and give you new clothes."
I looked into your hands and I saw a hole.  I asked you about the hole in the palm of your hand and you told me that there were holes in your feet also.
I wondered why you were reaching to help me when you seemed to need so much help yourself.
You looked me in the eyes and told me that you did it all for me.
I looked at your hands, and your head, and your feet, and I burst into tears.
suddenly I began to feel relief like I had never felt before
I felt lighter, like a weight had been lifted from me
All the guilt was melting away
All the sorrow was disappearing
All the anger was gone
everything inside me felt new.
It felt as though I was being given another chance.  I felt as though I was going to have a new start with nothing holding me back.
I reached out for Your hands and You lifted me up.
My soul began to shout within me and my feet began to dance.
I was free!  I was free!
I felt forgiven in a way that I had never felt before.  I really WAS forgiven.  I had been forgiven by someone with the power to forgive and take all the pain and dirt away.  It was like being born again.
I fell on my knees and began to weep and to worship and to praise the one who had the power to forgive like that.  You told me that your name IS Jesus, and that You are the Christ.  You had come for me.  You had died for me. You rose again to sit on the right hand of God so that one day I could join you, no longer condemned to sin and death and eternal flame and torture.
I AM FREE!

Thank you Holy Father for sending your only son to save me from my sins.  I believe that He is your son and that He died on the cross for me.  I believe Jesus, that you rose again.  Please never leave me.  Please lead me, guide me, teach me and help me to be the person that you created me to be.  In Jesus name.  Amen