We need to talk – to communicate with others. We cannot figure everything out on our own; we have to talk with those involved to be able to understand the fuller picture.

Otherwise we can jump to wrong conclusions.

Sometimes we can get so caught up in doing things ‘right’ that our hope for perfection turns into a form of legalism and we discover grace has been abandoned.

We try to hold others to a form of perfection that we ourselves are striving for or think we need to attain.

We cannot attain it and neither can they… and it frustrates and angers us.

What do we need to let go of so grace can come to the rescue?

Leaving my past…how do I want to live my today?

Forgetting what is behind me now…what do I want to build today?