Is it any wonder, then, that people were killed for sport, and it was not uncommon to sell your own child into slavery. All was one delirium of hate and terror. Blessed are the kind, for they will receive kindness. If we are able to exhibit a mercy that is increasingly rare in our time, it may be only because we have been claimed by a merciful God that the world does not know. The more we realize this, the more we will be able to entrust ourselves to each other in the gift of mercy, the more we will be able to take with other the risk God has first taken with each of us.
Mercy is a package deal, after all.
And the whole package is a gift, both the mercy we receive and the mercy we are empowered to give, mercy begetting mercy, blessing after blessing, grace upon grace. This site designed and maintained by Fred Gronberg Send e-mail to Webmaster with questions or comments about this web site.