Yet the gift of grace doesn't leave us there, but goes much further. Seeing ourselves through God's eyes, also means seeing ourselves as God knows we could be if we let God fully into our lives. To live in God's grace makes it possible for us to live out God's possibilities. Not for propriety, but for relationship. The point of faith is not about getting it right, but getting it real.
Faith is all about relationship.
That is why we have Godparents, people to be parents on God's behalf, in the place of God, so that we have another image for God other than our parent's writ large. And that is why baptism is always done as a part of a worshiping community, so that as we grow we will understand the richness and variety of God's love and support and encouragement. To live out our commitments to these relationships is to make God's presence and God's grace real. To pray for the promise of presence, for the gift of grace, and for the reality of relationship. And for the power to live into all three.