God’s new covenant is endlessly exciting. It is dripping with good news. It has consequences for our bodies and beings. And it’s a promise we cannot reciprocate. As we keep score and hold grudges, God remembers our sins no more. As we create a social hierarchy, God extends God’s love to all people. As we create limiting binaries of right and wrong, in and out, good and bad, God is accessible and available equally.

“I will be their God, and they shall be my people.” Repeat this throughout your day. It is all we need. There is no longer least or greatest. We are forgiven. We shall know God. Broken, we belong. Broken, we are beloved. All of us, without exception. In the joy of belonging to a loving God who is available to all people, we can shift our energy from binaries to radical inclusion. We can work toward wholeness in ourselves and our communities.

It is easy to forget that God lays the law on our hearts. God’s handwriting is in each of our bodies. There are physical markings of this spiritual gift, lest we stray and forget. Jeremiah’s words remind to look at our own hearts. Read the handwriting so beautiful and distinct that it can only be our Creator’s. Our God is the God of the Israelites, the God who takes us by the hand and leads us to freedom. Our God is a God who forgives, who comes back, who gives us second chances to live in the light of God’s promise. Our God is a God whose love extends to all people, whose love washes over all of us abundantly until we know through and through who we are and whose we are.