Grace and peace

Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
1 Peter 1:2

Or as in another translation, “Grace and peace be yours to the fullest measure.” Grace and peace, as much as you can contain, and then God expands your capacity! Grace is God’s self-giving in Christ, undeserved, utterly unlooked for, free, but always seeking the response of an answering love of grateful glad obedience. Peace is that pervasive sense that nothing can separate us from God’s love, and that God’s grace is sufficient whatever comes our way. These are the signs of God’s work within and among the people of God. Chosen, once strangers, perhaps scattered, but graced with peace.

Grace and peace,

Anita Sorenson
Pastor for Spiritual Formation