When All Else Fails: Grace

I am frequently struck by the depths of my sinfulness. At times like this I love having friends around me who cry out "Grace!" It is such a blessing to be surrounded with people who so clearly understand that it's not about me, it's not about them, it's about God... and his lavish grace.
When we remember God as our loving heavenly Father, when we look to him and not to our circumstances or surrounding, then we will see his beauty and his grace. Then we will realize that our failures, mistakes and sins are nothing in comparison to him... and there we will realize that gazing at ourselves and our failures causes us to take our eyes off of his beauty and grace.
May we seek Christ first, may we seek to live and enjoy his beauty, may we seek to become more like him day by day, and may we accept God's grace and extend it to those around us readily and freely.