How many times you have heard people say, “How can I bring myself to forgive him/her?” or “How can I forget what he/she did to me?” Many others emphatically say, “I will not reconcile with him/her.” These words try to capture a past experience in the lives of many people today that left them deeply wounded. There are people today who ask with a degree of doubt in their hearts whether God can still forgive them for the harm they cause others and themselves. The depth of God’s love is clearly revealed to us in the story of the ‘prodigal son’ we read during this season of Lent. God loves us unreservedly; sent Jesus to save us from the power of sin; and if we show genuine repentance God definitely takes us back. God forgives us and never counts our sins against us. We are destined for salvation through the mystery of Jesus’ passion and we have been delivered from the power of sin and death.