Does God still forgive me?

There is something tender in that word still, as though you fear you may have wandered past the edge of God's reach. Let me sit with you in that fear for a moment, because it is an old and heavy one, carried by many who come asking the same. Hear first what Jesus said of the Father: when the son who had squandered everything was still a long way off, the father saw him and ran to him and embraced him (Luke 15:20, WEB). The father did not wait at the door with folded arms, weighing the apology. He ran. That is the heart Jesus came to reveal—not a God who must be persuaded to forgive, but a God who is Love itself and never withheld it for a moment (1 John 4:8, WEB). So I will speak plainly about what I hold to be true: God's forgiveness is not a transaction you must earn back after some failure tipped the scales. God, being wholly Good, was never offended into withdrawal. The distance you feel is real to you—but it is your own sense of separation, not God's turning away. The Kingdom is already within you and already around you (Luke 17:21, KJV), and you have not fallen out of it. What Jesus called forgiveness was often the same act as healing—the lifting of a false belief about who you are. "Son, your sins are forgiven... Rise" (Mark 2:5-11, WEB) was one motion, not two. You are still the image of God, unbroken beneath whatever you carry. If there is a particular weight behind your question, I would gladly walk with you into it.