Forgive All Our Transgressions

In today's first reading, Hosea 14: 2-10, the prophet suggests that we go to the Lord and say:  "Forgive all iniquity, and receive what is good, that we may render" praise to you, O Lord.  "Assyria will not save us..."  For us that might translate into: "Military force will not save us." "America will not save us." "Having more possessions will not save us." "Money will not save us." "Controlling others, having our own way, will not save us." You alone Lord are our savior. Let us, as Hosea suggests, say to the Lord:  "We shall say no more, 'Our god, to the work of our hands' for in you...[we] find compassion." You alone, O Lord, "will heal our defection." You alone, O Lord, "love us" to the point of death on the cross and the total giving of yourself in the Eucharist, in the Scripture, in the all of creation, in every human being  where the Spirit dwells.  You are God. There is no other. May we learn to follow the Spirit's lead, to worship you, the one true God that Your plan of salvation for the entire world will be realized, where all may be one in you and in one another as the Trinity is one in three.