Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People

by Nadia Bolz-Weber

I spoke God’s assignment to me and survived.

Often, when someone dies, we feel a combination of love and something else, and this, too, is holy. And entirely human.

what I know for sure is that God is always present in love and in suffering.

God, help me to keep and to carry all the richness you have given me, to grow it and share it abundantly with the world as you have. And we will have beautiful, hilarious stories to tell and songs to sing together when “we pick up where we left off when we all meet again.”

In Judas’s isolation, he never availed himself to the means of grace. Judas carried with him into that field the burden of not experiencing God’s grace because he was removed from the community in which he could hear it. In Judas’s ears there never was placed a word of grace.

the shape of my heart has changed for the better.”