Our stories are distressingly familiar. We start each week, or each new day, with adamant intention: I will lose weight; I won’t lose patience with the kids; I’ll treat my colleagues kindly; I won’t waste hours surfing on the Web. And only hours or days later, we note the uptick on the scale; the strangely quiet children who endured our angry words; the whispering around the water cooler; the useless rantings of a hundred posts that only fenced us off from love. Our best intentions are like “ropes of sand.” Convinced by all those self-improvement books that mastery is within our grasp, we measure all the transient things that never plumb the depths of our true brokenness. There’s only one good work worth mentioning, according to the God who made us and redeemed us: “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent,” Jesus said, referring to Himself. When we admit our inability to makes ourselves leaner, kinder, wiser and more patient, we open up our lives to Him who says, “I am making all things new” (Rev 21:5). Our wholeness is the gift of grace: we cannot reach it by ourselves. If virtues ever grace our lives, it will be grace at work in us. Invite grace in, and give it room. And it will stay with you.
-Bill Knott
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UNSTOPPABLE (October 01, 2021)
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REGIFTING GRACE (September 17, 2021)
THE ORIGIN OF FORGIVENESS (September 10, 2021)
THE HOPE OF CHANGE (September 03, 2021)
UNFAILING LOVE (August 27, 2021)
SWEET SONG OF GRACE (August 20, 2021)
AGAINST THE TIDE (August 13, 2021)
GRACE AND TRUTH (August 06, 2021)
Bill Knott's Editorial: The Stories We Tell, August 2021
Bill Knott's GraceNotes: WALKING WITH THE GRACIOUS (July 31, 2021)
Bill Knott's GraceNotes: GRACE AT RISK (July 23, 2021)
Bill Knott's GraceNotes: WHEN GRACE WINS (July 16, 2021)
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Bill Knott's GraceNotes: THE GRACE WE GIVE (July 02, 2021)
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Bill Knott's GraceNotes: THE POWER TO CHANGE (June 18, 2021)
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Bill Knott's GraceNotes: FINDING COMMUNITY (June 04, 2021)
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