We really do have the ability to convince ourselves that we know what's best and that we really don't need wisdom greater than our own. Without the rescue of God's grace, we are all wise fools heading for dangers we simply don't see. And, as much as we like to think that we see and know ourselves well, it just isn't true. Where the physically blind knows that he or she is blind, spiritually blind people are blind to their blindness; they actually think they see when in fact they don't. We agree that we are all a bit of a mess.

So, we seek and ask for grace to visit each of us and transform our hearts so that in our work and our words we will progressively live as he calls us to live.