Want More Grace? It’s tempting to imagine grace as a rare event, a bolt from the blue, or a miracle. Well, to me, it is a miracle, but what I’ve found is that assuming it needs to be a rare occasion, or that it’s necessarily accompanied by the “bolt from the blue” feeling keeps grace at arm’s length. Grace can be a result of simply seeing something new in a situation you thought you knew all about. In other words, it’s having fresh thinking about what might have previously felt like something old and stale. The Relief of Fresh Thinking The relief we experience when fresh thinking sweeps away and

What Happened to My Endless Possibilities? You might notice how often I use the phrase, “endless possibilities.” Endless possibilities is another way to talk about the resilience that’s built into humans.  I realize as I write this that “endless” and “possibilities” have become welded together in my brain. It doesn’t occur to me the phrase is essentially two unconnected words because, at this point in my life, possibilities seem endless to me. How can it be any other way? Just like the phrase, “unconditional love,” “endless possibilities” contains an unnecessary modifier. The nature of love is already unconditional; it doesn’t need a modifier.  Love only becomes conditional when we extract