An Odd Work of Grace

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Friday, January 11, 2019

Top 10 posts of 2018


These were the top 10 posts on An Odd Work of Grace in 2018

1.      Praying Shapes Believing. Or Does It?

2.      On the Christian Creed: Some Questions & Responses

3.      The work of Christmas begins (continues)

4.      Where thrones shake, the mighty fall, the prominent perish

5.      Communion, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament & Benediction

6.      Charles Grafton: Evangelical at heart, while in belief a liberal Catholic

7.      Phillips Brooks on Jesus' Effect on His Disciples

8.      Centered on Jesus VI: The Impossibility of Religious Pluralism

9.      My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

This is a follow-up to that post:
Of First Importance

10.   Yearning for the vast and endless sea of God

And here are a three others for good measure:

            St. Ambrose and the Emperor

God's Love is Not Enough (John 3:16)

All you need is love – or maybe not
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I am Matt Gunter, 12th Bishop of the Diocese of Wisconsin, the Episcopal Church

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The Blog Title

The phrase is from something by Charles Grafton (1830-1912), the 2nd Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Fond du Lac:

"Rest in the smile of Jesus, be detached from self, even from your own growth in grace. Don’t be worried if you are not getting on, try, but do not worry. It hinders His work, be patient, leave self to God, and pray Him to make you what He would have you to be. He has His plan for each soul, and so, we can have no plan of saintliness: be willing to be like one of the “queer things” in the medley among beautiful pictures and statues, one of His odd works of grace, different, singular, peculiar, hard to make, but having its own place in the owner’s heart.”

I love the whole quote. It captures something of the mercy and delight of God as revealed in Jesus Christ. And I consider myself, in more ways than one, to be an odd work of grace.

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