And You Rejoice

So, I open my devotional magazine (Sports Illustrated) and read a wonderful story about Christian forgiveness (Sept 17 edition: "The Boy They Couldn't Kill"). I particularly liked this simple description of what common grace is about.

"What she learned at Mount Olive was an overwhelming sense of gratitude for life. The sense that you don't wake up unless God opens your eyes, don't see the rising sun unless God pulls it from the horizon, don't put food in your mouth unless God helps you hold the fork. And you do all these things and you rejoice."