What is the gift of expiation?

​EXPIATE
 
We can try to make amends
for all that we have got wrong.
We can try to begin again
through our own efforts.
We can try to extinguish
the guilt we may carry.
 
But expiation does all
​of this, freely, for us.
Expiation is a gift of love
that clears the record.
It’s as if our mistakes
never existed.

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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1. Can you accept the gift of expiation?
​2. What does it mean to start with a clean sheet?​

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​Day 530 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercise

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