The salvation God offers us in Jesus Christ entails being saved from our sense of worthlessness, of not being good enough, of being good for nothing, of not deserving to be loved for who we are.

On Mother’s Day I observed that each of us has been created with a God-hole.

In that God-hole lies all our self-doubt and shame. It remains there until God fills that hole. We try to fill the hole with God-substitutes. We try to overcome the self-doubt by proving ourselves. The world gives us a cafeteria line to choose from. All we have to do is become the slave of its offerings: success, wealth, power, status.

In addition to the God-hole in each of us, there are also mother holes and father holes. They overlap the God-hole, but cannot fill it. The job description of mothers and fathers is to p…