Stumbling Into Grace by Lisa Harper

Aw, but aren’t we all spiritually clumsy? If we were honest with ourselves and others, we would admit that our lives are full of trips and fall…literally and figuratively. And, if we were to be authentic, we would understand what Lisa Harper’s Stumbling Into Grace is all about – forgiveness in spite of flaws. Perhaps maybe if we spent more time acknowledging our own flaws it might be easier to forgive the imperfections of others. Lisa’s book talks about how we sometimes get lost in our own chaos of emotions that we often forget to extend the very same grace we expect from others. One of the very best gifts that I ever received was from a dear friend in one of my darkest hours and it came in the package of nine little words “I don’t want you to feel like an island.” What words of comfort and grace. But just as grace is extended to us, Stumbling Into Grace explains, our grace must also be extended even when we think as I and Lisa have, “he could be so difficult that I wasn’t sure grace was big enough to include him.” God’s grace is big enough!