Human history is one giant wave of unearned grace, and each of us is now another wave crashing onto the sands of time, edged forward by the many waves behind us. We are fully adopted sons and daughters in God’s one eternal family. To accept such an objective truth is the only sense in which we need to be a Christian or a Franciscan. It is the best and deepest understanding of how the Risen Christ spreads his forgiving heart through history.
