Grace – how much is too much?

if you only knew sweet child… nothing is fair 

I then, sometimes calmly, sometimes not quite as calmly as I long to be, explain again to my crying child

life is not fair.  it just isn’t.  

Sometimes things work out fairly, but most of the time, at least one soul leaves feeling wronged.
Then it happens… it happens to me.  It’s not fair!  That’s when it hits me… just what I told my sweet, whiny child

life is not fair.

Easy lessons to teach, but not so easy to learn.  Why is it that the things we want to teach our kids, we have to painfully learn ourselves?  The real question is this … is “fair” the important lesson?
It’s a nice idea, this idea of things being equal, balanced, and just.  We only see the justice through our eyes.

Then, the real lesson grabs me and shakes me.  It peels a few more scales from my eyes.

It’s not about “fair” … it’s about grace.

That gem given to us in the midst of it all ~ in the midst of the beauty