A little Christmas cheer bedecking my nightstand--thanks, friends!
Hiking through the Santa Susanna hills earlier this week, I made a haphazard attempt to explain my feelings about someone who broke their word, a transgression that particularly irks me.
"Well, of course I'm mad because ..."
"But really I can't be mad because they were only doing what they knew."
"So even though I'm upset because ..."
"Really, I'm not because I understand..."
My lovely friend kindly summarized: "So it was wrong, but there is grace."
Hmm, some of us have the gift of excessive detail, and others the gift of succinct synopsis.
As we start 2012, this is a beautiful phrase to remember: "It was wrong, but there is grace."
20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound.
But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more,
21 so that as sin reigned in death,
even so grace might reign through righteousness
to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 5:20-21
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