Laughter is grace in its gaseous form..

Music is a vehicle that propels me and so many other people toward a place we might call grace..

I've heard it said that grace is God reaching God's hands into the world. And the Bible tells us that we are part of the body of Christ, that if we l….

While it's true that you may lose your religion during the course of a lifetime, you never lose your salvation. Once you let Jesus in your kitchen, h….

You can call it what you like, categorize it, vivisect it, qualify, quantify, or dismiss it, and none of it will make grace anything other than preci….

Grace has a way of sneaking up on you like that. When you least deserve it..

Grace doesn't obsess with ourselves. It obsesses with people and with brokenness. This is a hard place to live, but God is bigger than hard places to….

Of all the exotic aromas and experiences from my sojourn in Ethiopia, it’s the frankincense I miss most..

My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God's love I've ever encountered in this world. She was a magnet for lost soul….

Justice is getting what you deserve. Mercy is not getting what you deserve. And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve. ...... benign goo….

Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green..

In her inestimable audacity, Julia was the catalyst in my life for something beautiful. I hadn't anticipated her-hadn't even wanted her, truthfully-b….