I know that you just got an email from me, but as I started receiving responses I was overcome by the amazing amount of grace I am being extended. Thank you. It would be an interesting exercise to keep something like a “grace journal” so I could daily record what grace looks like to me. I think for me it can be really easy to forget about or even overlook the grace that I am extended from God through others. I came across this quote from Philip Yancey from his book What’s So Amazing About Grace –

“Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks.”
— Philip Yancey

What I like about Yancey’s quote is the implied connection to each of us being a light unto the world (Matthew 5:15). But Yancey takes it a step further for me by allowing me to journey to my own acknowledgement of being cracked. It is easy for me to get comfortable and smug in my own abilities, and then something like a book cover booboo pops up and humbles me. As painful as it was when I had the typo on my cover pointed out to me, God is already revealing more of Himself through that (doesn’t mean I’m hoping for more typos though). Realistically, this email would not exist and this frame of mind I’m in right now would not exist were it not for this experience. How can I not be grateful? How wonderful is the grace I have been afforded?

The originator of all grace is God. May His light shine through all of my cracks. As I look upon others, may I see their cracks and say, “there is God, shining through.” May I not focus on the cracks, but the light in others. And may I pray the same for each of you.

Again, thank you so much.