Is there any

joy that compares with a pastor laying his hands on your head and absolving you of all your sins? Today that was my joy - to receive a forgiveness as certain on earth as it is in heaven. Pastors need to confess too, and to hear the word of absolution, a word that brings comfort and hope. Thank you, Pastor, for hearing my confession; but thank you even more for speaking my Savior's forgiveness into my ears and putting it upon me with the laying on of hands.