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Good art, good literature, helps us imagine what a new normal and a new world can be. It is vital in times like these to seek out that which helps us imagine a better world and encourages us to work together, perhaps in small ways like Sarah Smith, to build this new world now.

In some ways, Father Brown and Clarence Jordan couldn’t be more different. … Yet, both inspire me for the same reason: their participation in the redemptive activity of God. Both men are models of mercy.

The father went on directing his remarks to Lilian, “You aren’t one of us. Why would my children play with you?” Lilian looked at the grown man. She could see kindness in his eyes even though his tone and words did not match it. She said to him, “Aren’t we are all God’s children, sir? That makes us one family … doesn’t it, sir?”

There are few things I find more meditative than laboring in the vineyard. I love pruning and harvesting and, of course, eating muscadines and scuppernongs

Grace must be lived and breathed. Perhaps you are not where you want to be today — Breathe. Live into the grace offered to you from God. And, don’t worry. Things take the time they take.