The Divine Washing

"God's mercy takes precedent over God's wrath, and bestows on your hypocrisy a light that the full moon does not possess.
God cleanses your efforts of contamination: the Divine Mercy washes us clean of our folly.
In order that His great forgiveness may be made manifest, a helmet of forgiveness will cover the hypocrite's baldness.
The water rained from heaven, that it might cleanse the impure of their defilement.
Such is His work...The Lord of all created beings is the beautifier of the world.
This Grace stole purses of gold from the certain One, then it runs in every direction, crying, "Where is an insolvent?"
Either it sheds the treasure on a blade of grass that has grown, or it washes the face of the one whose face is unwashed.
Or, porter like, it takes on its head the ship that is without hand or foot, that is helplessly tossing in the seas.
The soul of every pearl, the heart of every grain, goes into the river of healing, as onto a shop of salves.
From this Grace comes nourishment to the orphans of the earth; from it comes growth and movement to them that are tied fast, the parched ones."

Rumi (Vol.5, 196-216)

Commentary: Rumi describes the Holy, as that which makes us beautiful, that which "cleans up our act", that which restores us to wholeness... that must mean that our poverty, our hypocrisy and our helpless distraction are not a serious barrier.