God has placed his fingerprint on your soul. He has given you something to be received that changes you completely. Brennan Manning will be here in the spring to teach us again about grace and sacrifice. He has told the story in the past about his life being saved by a friend at the cost of his own life, whose name Brennan then took as his own. Your life is saved by a friend who loses his life in the process.
Atonement is gift.
The grace of God is preposterous enough to accept as beautiful a coloring that anyone else would reject as ugly. The grace of God sees beyond the scribbling to the heart of the scribbler a scribbler who is similar to the two thieves who hung on crosses on either side of Jesus. And very good news for the rest of us scribblers. Hands started going up. He proceeded to crumple the dollar bill up.