From Fr. Stephen

Fr. Stephen is getting ready for the wedding of his son to his lovely bride-to-be. Today, he reflected on this and on parenting in general. But, as usual, his words reach to deeper territories than the matter at hand:

…it is still the case that grace has a way of trumping both our best efforts and sometimes our worst failures.

I can look at my own life and see any number of places where events could have turned on the spot in such a manner to have changed the entire course of my life for the worse. On the one hand it says that in certain times in my life I sailed a little close to the edge (this is true). But it also says that despite my own efforts to damn my soul, God saved me. And this is the witness of Scripture, that “while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

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~ by Jonathan on July 13, 2007.