Wideness
"There's a Wideness in God's Mercy, like the wideness of the sea; there's a kindness in God's justice which is more than liberty. There is no place where earth's sorrows are more felt than up in heav'n. There is no place where earth's failings have such kindly judgment giv'n. There's a welcome for the sinner, and a promised grace made good; there is mercy with the Savior; there is healing in his blood. There is grace enough for thousands of new worlds as great as this; there is room for fresh creations in that upper home of bliss. For the love of God is broader than the measures of our mind; and the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind. But we make this love too narrow by false limits of our own' and we magnify its strictness with a zeal God will not own." - "There's a Wideness in God's Mercy" (ELW 587 vv. 1-3) This is one of my all time favorite hymns. It is probably best known for it...