"They say that love is one of those things.

 "And now I know that grace is another."

 ""....And I experienced a faintly familiar and distant feeling of holding my head up, as though God himself was gently lifting my chin to look toward Him. It was powerful. And it accomplished an infinitely greater transformation and restoration in me than the rebukes, the criticism, the indifference, and the loaded acceptance that seemed to sentence me to an eternity of being the lesser person.

 "I felt God reaching His healing hand into my heart, with all my imperfections and shortcomings, my failures and shattered dreams, and telling me that I was still His and was worthy of love." Naomi Zacharais, The Scent of Water-Grace for Every Kind of Broken

 So what is it that we do to one another, and to ourselves?

 Do you know what is really in someone's heart?

Grace is so freely given to us.

Why is that hard to remember?

 "No matter how I may feel, Christ is my righteousness. No matter how many doubts may arise, Christ is my righteousness. No matter how many accusations I hear from the devil during the day, I stand on this: God sees me as righteous in Christ!" David Wilkerson, World Challenge Pulpit Series, "Brokenness" April 2010

"My sacrifice [the sacrifice acceptable] to God is a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart [broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent], such O God, You will not despise." Ps. 51:17         Oh thank You God, for that...