Social media makes it so easy to point out faults—of other people. You get mad and call other people liars or cheats or heathen.
Grace.
At various periods of Western history this was an acceptable female name.
More than a name, grace is an attitude. More than an attitude, it is a way of life.
Jesus was approached by a mob demanding to throw stones on a woman to kill her for adultery. An often asked question is, where was the man, since it takes two (as that old Motown song had it). Jesus may have recognized that in his response. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
That may be the beginning of grace. Realizing that I am not perfect and perhaps could use some grace from God myself. Further, I can give grace by refraining from words and actions that cause harm to another human being.
Paul, the Apostle, tries to explain grace in lots of words in his letters to the Galatians and the Romans, for example.
Jesus’ simple, yet profound, story explains better. No one is perfect. Why demand perfection of another? It’s all about grace. Getting it. Giving it.
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