"Radical Grace"

"I used to say that if I ever wrote a book, its title would be Nothing Truly Radical Happens After Age Six, Except Grace. Grace, that experience of unconditional love, breaks through the whole system and can change anything. All of Christian life could be described as an ever-deeper encounter between our wounded inner child and the wondrous world of grace. Grace can bring us back to the radix, our roots, and orient us toward the conversion Jesus called for. That’s why we say grace is radical. Radical grace empowers us to shuck off the system and become children again: children of God, brother and sister to all of humanity."
-Richard Rohr, from The Spiritual Family and the Natural Family

I have a sticker on my nalgene that says "ponder grace". This is what it means. Grace is radical. We cannot explain it. It is infinitely understandable. I learn more about grace, how to receive it and give it and recognize it and accept it, EVERY DAY. It is new every day. Unless we really need grace, it seems, we cannot truly know how radical this grace is. Jesus came for the sinners. We sinners would be dead (in so many ways) without this grace. In any case, Richard Rohr says it better than I can.