You can’t out-sin God’s mercy, but you can waste years trying to prove it.

No amount of failure exhausts mercy, and that is the part hardest to believe. What happens instead is a long detour, where you decide you are past the point of return and then live like it, keeping your distance out of a shame that can pass for honesty. Years get spent testing a limit that is not there. That is the actual loss.

If you have been staying away over something specific, notice that the staying away has become the bigger problem. You do not have to feel worthy first. Come back as you are today and let the cleanup be a later conversation rather than the entry fee.