Grace, in human relationships, simply means doing good to one another - with no conditions attached. We must put aside our offenses and our agendas. We must go looking for the one we have lost. Then we will find each other at the place where we were found - at the cross. The cross is not only God's methodology, it is God's resource.
Life begins anew at the cross.
We need to understand how. The cross was the outpouring of divine love, but it was poured out through a human heart, the heart of Jesus. When that happened, divine love was injected into the bloodstream of humanity - the kind of love that can regenerate human love after it has died. I have seen it happen at the cross many, many times. At the cross we encounter a faith that can revive the strength to trust again after trust has been broken beyond repair - a faith that can transform the most untrustworthy person into someone worthy of trust.