What do we all really want in life? For many of us the answer to that question is a real life with real friendships and real personal connections. We want real love, real respect. We want to be someone who matters, someone who is noticed, someone people care about. We want to belong somewhere. We want a real place in a real community, and a real place in other people's hearts. We want to live a life that is meaningful with a real sense of purpose. We want to be truly alive and help others be truly alive. We want to be accepted, blessed, and be a blessing to others. We all want that. I do. You do. And other people do. We are more likely to find that life when we put our trust in the grace of God instead of in self-justification, and then extend that grace to one another.
Stuart K. Norris, M.Div., Th.M. graduated from Wheaton College and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and studied at the University of Nevada. He has been a pastor, a hospice chaplain, and marriage and family therapist working in private practice and hospital-based settings.