✨ What Mercy Does
✨ What Mercy Does by Pia Hjorth 🕊️ Introduction There are moments when words arrive like healing rain—soft, steady, and full of grace. What Mercy Does is one such offering. This poem came from a place of reflection, where pain met compassion, and where the divine whispered gently into the broken places. I wrote it as a prayer, a promise, and a reminder: mercy is not distant. It draws near. 📜 The Poem ✨ What Mercy Does by Pia Hjorth Mercy doesn’t count the cost — It pays it, full and free. It doesn’t ask if you deserve, It says, “Come back to Me.” Mercy covers shame with linen light, It speaks when guilt would shout. It holds your hand through darkest night, And never casts you out. Mercy rebuilds what fear destroyed, It plants where sorrow grew. It doesn’t flinch at ruined things — It makes all things new. ——————- 🌿 Reflection Each stanza speaks to a truth I’ve wrestled with and returned to: that mercy is not earned, but given. It doesn’t wait for perfection. It steps into the...