Acceptance

Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying: 'You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later; do not try to do anything now; perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything; do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted!'. If that happens to us, we experience grace. We may not be better than before, and we may not believe more than before. But everything is transformed. In that moment, grace conquers sin, and reconciliation bridges the gulf of estrangement. And nothing is demanded of this experience, no religious or moral or intellectual presupposition, nothing but acceptance.

Paul Tillich, The Essential Tillich, p.201

I would like to think that God's grace is similar to this kind of grace, an unconditional acceptance that doesn't look at your wrong-ness or right-ness but rather accepts, simply. And if this is true, if this is God, then Christians should try to find this kind of grace within themselves, and let it grow and go out towards the rest of us. It doesn't often happen this way: perhaps there are not so many Christians out there after all...