I like being a Facebook stalker, especially during election campaigns.  This year there is one candidate that is drawing more attention than any of the others.  Postings about this person often use words such as obnoxious, self-righteous, racist, insensitive, etc. Looking from afar, I can see the basis of those kinds of harsh words. It does make me think; as people look at my life I certainly hope those kinds of descriptors do not come to mind.  However, if I am honest with myself, some of those very things manifest themselves in me.  This weekend my wife and I watched the movie Race; the story about Jesse Owens.  I was repulsed by the things he had to endure, both in Germany at the Olympics and also here in the United States.  I wondered how people could be that cruel, so hateful, and mean.  As we left the theater I noticed that Sharron and I were the only white people in the theater.  It grieved my heart; not that we were the only whites, but that I noticed.  I asked God for forgiveness.  I have so far to go.  God help me see people as you do.

…Then there was grace.