This piece of yours is amazing, my friend. The strongest part of my faith in God (when I still had it) was the belief that we are saved by grace alone. (I am a lapsed Lutheran. Can you tell?) I still believe that grace alone is what keeps us going as a race. We can never be our true selves until we let go of trying too hard. We need to let the grace of friendship and love come over us before we can know who we truly are.

The prompt rocks too. In fact, the two together are so good that I almost didn’t submit anything this week. It seemed you had said everything I was thinking. A night of sleep gave me some perspective, and I came up with this:

Perspective