. . . I really find myself struggling to remember the true nature of grace.
When I was growing up, our society still mostly did a good job of presenting the world - or, at least, America - as a meritocracy, and of teaching us that, in such a world, we'd each get what we deserved. And our conception of God as Final and Chief Arbiter of Eternal MeritTM fit hand-in-glove with that. In some ways our society co-opted the Gospel for many of us, turning it into something far less than God's plan for our salvation.
But grace is precisely getting what we don't deserve.
Sometimes, though, I still wish I could merit the respect which I am only given because people don't know the degree to which I don't deserve it.
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