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Tripped Up

As far as I can tell the only way to fall from grace is to trip over religion.   Gwen Tennant-Ketchum My friend Gwen nails it in today's quote.  And I resonate with it because religion is the very thing that is what trips me up in grace.  When I find myself struggling to extend grace, receive grace, be grace I can usually look no further than religion.  Religion forgets relationships, it forgets flexibility, it forgets that sometimes *it* isn't black and white but gray.  Religion acts better than others, "high and mighty", and as judge and jury.  So when I find myself tripping up on grace I know that somehow religion has gotten in my way.   The Pharisees in the Bible are role models for religion tripping up grace.  They clashed with Jesus all the time over issues of grace.  It's unfortunate that I can relate to them a little too well.  Hang around me long enough and you'll hear me call myself a "recovering pharisee".  I say "rec...