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If mercy is when you don’t get what you do deserve then Grace is when you get what you don’t deserve. Grace is undeserved kindness. We’re all familiar with the modern-day idioms: “by the grace of God”; “grace period” or “a saving grace”. However, when it comes to extending grace to others or extending grace to ourselves, to use another idiom, it is easier said than done.  I am a pastor in the Lutheran tradition, and I am a woman of colour. I have the opportunity to understand grace whole heartedly. Martin Luther, protestant reformer after whom the denomination is named, (despite the notion that Luther himself would be displeased with the attribution), proclaimed that faith was a reliance on the abundant grace of God. Salvation, by Lutheran understanding is by grace through faith in Christ, and that grace is God’s unmerited good intention towards all of creation. To be a recipient of God’s grace is to be humbled in gratitude and awe, knowing it is indeed unmer

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