When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.

We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.

Nevertheless, the central affirmation of the Reformation stands: through no merit of ours, but by his mercy, WE HAVE BEEN RESTORED to a right relationship with God through the life, death, and resurrection of his beloved Son. This is the Good News, the gospel of Grace

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.

We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.

The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!