Prodigal: I wonder if that taffy is any good.

Me: It looks fresh.

Prodigal: Maybe I will get some while you share.

This is from Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I can go and sin as much as I like, and rely on this grace to forgive me, for after all the world is justified in principle by grace. I can therefore cling to my bourgeois secular existence, and remain as I was before, but with the added assurance that the grace of God will cover me….The upshot of it all is that my only duty as a Christian is to escape from the world for an hour or so on a Sunday morning and go to Church to be assured that my sins are all forgiven. I need no longer try to follow Christ, for cheap grace, the bitterest foe of all true discipleship, had freed me from that.

God as slowly been convicting me. This is a personal conviction. To keep things simple. We can over complicate our lives and focus to much on the things that do not matter. We focus on what others think or items we can own. I have to keep it more simple. I try to fill the seconds with technology when I need to fill those seconds with praising God and remember this day the Lord has given me. I need to work at keeping my life simple. Too many things will distract me. Lord thank you for the conviction, and help me to stay simple and not complicate matters.

Psalms 100:4-5

Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

Jennifer Van Allen

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