Grace
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There's a popular slang phrase that begs another to ease up
the pressure: "Cut me some slack," we say. Or, in reference to
another upon whom we take pity, we plead, "Cut her some slack."
We're asking that we not be held so tightly accountable by
another. If we're in training to achieve a goal, then being held
to a regimen by a coach or friend is necessary and worthwhile.
But often, when we're holding someone else to stringent
performances in daily life, we're really trying to work out
through another, something we can't accomplish in our own lives.
That's unfair. Thomas a' Kempis stated it beautifully in The
Imitation Of Christ: "Be not angry that you cannot make others as
you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish
to be." (Thomas a' Kempis, The Imitation Of Christ, Henneberry
Co., Chicago, n.d., p. 14) We must grant others at least as much
grace as God grants us.
the pressure: "Cut me some slack," we say. Or, in reference to
another upon whom we take pity, we plead, "Cut her some slack."
We're asking that we not be held so tightly accountable by
another. If we're in training to achieve a goal, then being held
to a regimen by a coach or friend is necessary and worthwhile.
But often, when we're holding someone else to stringent
performances in daily life, we're really trying to work out
through another, something we can't accomplish in our own lives.
That's unfair. Thomas a' Kempis stated it beautifully in The
Imitation Of Christ: "Be not angry that you cannot make others as
you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish
to be." (Thomas a' Kempis, The Imitation Of Christ, Henneberry
Co., Chicago, n.d., p. 14) We must grant others at least as much
grace as God grants us.
