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Eat Your Pie…

Apple pie, sweet potato pie, key lime pie, lemon meringue pie, and the one that most don’t willingly select: Humble Pie. Humble Pie eating moments are those moments that make you realize that you messed up, you were wrong, you made a poor choice.  No one ever says “Hmm, today looks like a great day to learn a lesson in humility.” But even those moments have a purpose. They are often needed to help us recognize our limitations, to see...

But For Grace

“Your grace has run out,” he said in his sternest Daddy voice. “Daddy what is grace?” she bellowed from the back seat of the car.“Grace is when you get many chances to do the right thing.” That was the simplest answer we could think to give. That Sunday afternoon on the way home from church, my husband and I  both struggled for words that could explain the concept of grace to our six year old daughter.  Sometimes we get fed up with...