Last night I attended a service where the reflection used metaphors of a plumb line and a measure to reflect on the need to align our lives with God's law/teaching and then subverted itself with the image of a heart to signify the central tenet of love.  Very simple, very straight forward and somehow quite helpful.

Grace is about that... about love over-ruling legal minutiae when the intent is right.

Compassion is that which allows a person to recognise the need to exercise grace.

Today I encountered compassionate officialdom, grace in the ordinary, and a reminder that God's love will ultimately overcome any and every challenge.

Thanks be to God who is in all and who can use even fallible, stressy me as a medium for incarnating grace.