Thought for the day from Julian of Norwich - Second Week of Lent

By contrition, we are made clean;  by compassion, we are made ready; by a genuine longing for God, we are made worthy.  It is by mean of these three that souls can attain heaven, as I understand it.  By these mediciones it is necessary for every soul to be healed.  Though healed, the soul's wounds are still seen by God, not as wounds, but as honorable scars.