“Am I a Terrible Person?”

There is great power in the words โ€œGod, please forgive me.โ€ย  Not only will God forgive you and me, but God will clean out the wound.

Minor Prophets: Amos Lowers the Boom

Like one of those disaster sagas, I wonder if the people were numb at this point, hollowed of all feeling, the shock of these words landing like mallets on the taut head of a kettle drum.