Good works
The last month of the year reminds me more than any other time about the grace of God. This period is synonymous with the birth of God’s son, and it reminds me not just of his birth but also the reason for the birth. In the early hours of this morning, I was reading a verse from the book of Colossians, second chapter, v erse eight: “For it is by grace that you have been saved.” Grace, as described by many authors, is simply unmerited favor, something you get underserved. We look around our world today, and we see this come into play in the life of the little child who survived the auto crash that killed her entire family; we see it in the heart of the drug addict who survived the overdose which sent others to the grave; we experience it in the love of a family, reunited after years of a bitter divorce; we embrace it through the forgiveness of the people we have done wrong to; and we appreciate it through the eyes of the colleague who received the promotion they didn’t expe...