Who are You to Think You are Better than Our Lord?

While exploring an experience of deep guilt and shame with her spiritual director, the author of Madeleine L’Engle, wrote

One time I was talking to Canon Tallis, who is my spiritual director as well as my friend, and I was deeply grieved about something, and I kept telling him how woefully I had failed someone I love, failed totally; otherwise that person couldn’t have done the wrong that…