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Commentary
GRACE, ANYONE?
I was telling someone how striking it is that some live life from upgrade to upgrade while others live a life of patches and repairs. Their immediate response: “Life choices.” Now, honestly, I don’t know if that response was made with disdain or compassion, but it felt like an accusation, one that so-called friends leveled at Job.
Here’s what I’m suggesting in this poem: accounting for all our circumstances as something we deserve treads dangerously on grace.
The title is intentionally misspelled… and deliciously ambiguous.
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