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    			  I was having a bad day.  Actually, I've had a pretty sucky year.  But yesterday self-doubt got together with discouragement and frustration and really partied it up.  While they were hooting and hollering, I pulled out my iPhone and opened the Kindle store.  This book was sitting in the middle of the Kindle Top Sellers list, and it was free, so I downloaded it without knowing a thing about it.<br/><br/>I had to wait in line, so I started to read.  And didn't stop until I finished.<br/><br/>As Falsani puts it:<br/><br/>&quot;Justice is getting what you deserve.<br/><br/>&quot;Mercy is not getting what you deserve.<br/><br/>&quot;And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve.&quot;<br/><br/>This book, appearing on the Kindle list when I spur-of-the-moment decided to check it, was an act of grace for me.  It helps that Falsani  and I share the same take on what Christianity and being a Christian means.  And just when I desperately needed it, emotionally, spiritually - her wise, thoughtful, inspirational and heart -tugging stories appeared.    <br/><br/>Grace.  Just as she said.
    			
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    	<span id="reviewTextContainer43244633" style="">&quot;<span id="freeTextContainerreview_rating43244633" class="reviewText">Falsani's series of essays are honest, funny, irreverent, and inspiring. She points out the places she finds grace: in her everyday life, in her job as a religion writer, on treks to Africa where she's met a collective of widows who are supporting th<a href="#" onclick="Element.show('freeTextreview_rating43244633'); Element.hide('freeTextContainerreview_rating43244633'); return false;">...more</a></span>
<span id="freeTextreview_rating43244633" style="display:none" class="reviewText">Falsani's series of essays are honest, funny, irreverent, and inspiring. She points out the places she finds grace: in her everyday life, in her job as a religion writer, on treks to Africa where she's met a collective of widows who are supporting themselves, in a Kenyan slum, in her own writer's block. I'm a tough audience but she made me laugh out loud and cry.  <a href="#" onclick="Element.hide('freeTextreview_rating43244633'); Element.show('freeTextContainerreview_rating43244633'); return false;">(less)</a></span>
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    	<span id="reviewTextContainer35689001" style="">&quot;<span id="freeTextContainerreview_rating35689001" class="reviewText">Falsani, the religion columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, writes about the power of grace wherever she can find it -- whether that's under a tree in her own backyard, walking through the rooms at Graceland, or in an encounter with a sickly child in <a href="#" onclick="Element.show('freeTextreview_rating35689001'); Element.hide('freeTextContainerreview_rating35689001'); return false;">...more</a></span>
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    	<span id="reviewTextContainer53967045" style="">&quot;<span id="freeTextContainerreview_rating53967045" class="reviewText">Don't let the title keep you away. I actually had someone tell me that this was not an appropriate book for me to be carrying into church as I tend to read and drink coffee before the service. Definitely a great read that gave me a better understandi<a href="#" onclick="Element.show('freeTextreview_rating53967045'); Element.hide('freeTextContainerreview_rating53967045'); return false;">...more</a></span>
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    	<span id="reviewTextContainer45264796" style="">&quot;<span id="freeTextContainerreview_rating45264796" class="reviewText">although the title sounds heretical, the book is solidly biblical and very well written. i highly recommend it for everyone -- we all need to know God's grace more deeply.</span>
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