Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Grace

Many times instead of using Grace as a gift of love we bestow upon another we use it as an excuse for our own prejudice and failings - condescendingly giving grace in a false show of humility and love to those who have never wronged our persons but have only infringed upon our imperfect sensibilities. This is made all the worse when we have convinced ourselves in the name of godliness and love that we are doing a great thing. We are throwing the blameless and innocent to the wolves so that we may be convinced of our own heroism when we rescue them. God forbid the innocent ever becomes convinced that our judgment of them is truth and that their naivete finds them wanting because it is not as aggressive as the social hierarchy we idolize.

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