Your worst moment does not outrank grace.

Whatever you consider the worst thing you have done, it is not larger than the possibility of being forgiven, and it does not get the final say about your future. That is hard to believe from inside the shame, which is precisely when it is most worth hearing. The moment does not become the measure of you.

If you carry something like that, notice how often you use it to disqualify yourself from ordinary good things. Try allowing one of them anyway this week. Repair is served better by living than by continued self-exile.