REV. DR. DUSTIN B. SULLIVAN 
“But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ has apportioned it.”  – Ephesians 4:7 NIV 

The older I become, the more I am aware of the fingerprint of God’s grace imprinted on my life. The favor I’ve found, the ways He has made, God’s grace, superimposed on every degree of accomplishment, every inclination of entitlement, every skillful battle won, and even those that I’ve lost. His grace overrides all of my mistakes, offering an opportunity to grow. It’s the grace that loves me through imperfections and remains committed in the stretching and shaping toward His greater plan. Living by this very motto: “I’ve been given the grace to grow.” In part, speaks to what is received and equally the inestimable value of what is gifted. 

What does it mean to live out love by offering grace? Perhaps the revelation that God is stretching within each of us, in the same moment, the opportunity to be something more. Of Michelangelo, it is said, countless hours were spent at the marble quarry, staring at shapeless slabs until he could see with his heart what, in time, would become clearer to his eye. It’s the spectacular brilliance to see what has yet to be sculpted. 

Today, may be the opportunity to admire the unfinished form of what is yet to be sculpted.