Grace isn’t about God creating humans as flawed beings and then acting all hurt when we inevitably fail and then stepping in like the hero to grant us grace — like saying “Oh, it’s OK, I’ll be a good guy and forgive you.” It’s God saying, “I love the world too much to let your sin define you and be the final word. I am a God who makes all things new.”
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix, p. 50
The finesse of God implies something like: Here is your life. You may very well never have been, yet you are on the grounds that the party could not have possibly been finished without you.