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Grace for 6 Billion Problems
There’s nothing I can do that could make God love me less.
Nothing.
And there’s nothing I can do that could make God love me more.
Nothing.
But there’s plenty we do in this human race that causes others to love us less.
Or more.
Or both.
Plenty of what I do makes others love me less. Or more. It depends on the day, and with whom you are speaking.
Human capacity to love is greatly flawed.
Our capacity for showing grace, even moreso.
We as humans find pathological satisfaction in the blame game. It helps us to deny our respective contributions to the problems around us when we choose to believe that everything that sucks is the fault of someone else.
This world has billions of problems. Approximately 6 billion.
They’re called “people.”
I am one of those people; therefore, I am one of the world’s problems…whether I try to be or not.
And there’s grace for that.
With that understanding, I seek each day — each moment — to be part of the solution. Doing that helps me avert my heart’s tendency to point the finger of blame and act upon the grace that is afforded me every day.
God’s love for me — for you — is unchanging. No matter how ugly things seem.
That is grace. True “No-Matter-What” grace.
© Alexa Lopez, 2010
