Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness. DAVID AUGSBURGER

Love is daily admitting to yourself, your spouse, and God that you are not able to love this way without God's protecting, providing, forgiving, rescuing, and delivering grace.

When you forget mercy and think you're deserving, you find it all too easy not to extend mercy to others.

You deal with others with grace when you walk around with the humble realization of how deep your need for grace was and continues to be.

The reconciliation of a marriage must be a lifestyle, not just the response you have when things go bad. Consider

If you fail to carry around with you a heart of gratitude for the love you've been so freely given, it is easy for you not to love others as you should.

For the believer, harsh, critical, impatient, and irritated responses to others are always connected to forgetting or denying who we are and what we have been given in Jesus.

No one gives grace better than a parent who humbly admits that he desperately needs it himself.

We bask in God's grace but throw the law at others. We're

Forgiveness is a vertical commitment that is followed by a horizontal transaction.

We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

A prayer room is a place where we can experience peace so that we can make peace later. A place where we can accept forgiveness so that we can live our lives as priests at work. A place where we receive our Father's acceptance so that we can love even those who laugh at us later in the day.