No Loophole

Everything in life that has meaning and value is rooted in God’s Grace. In the New Testament, St. Paul begins all his letters by reminding the people to whom he was writing of the Grace of God. “Grace be with you,” he says. Jesus came to reveal that Grace to us: to show us what it is; to show us that it is real; to show us that it is available. But he came also to show us that the way we appropriate that Grace for our lives is through the totality of our response to God. This becomes more and more clear to us as we draw close to Jesus and see Him as the Model of our response to God. In Jesus we see the total response: total obedience to the Father’s Will; total acceptance of the Father’s love; total dependence for fulfillment on the Father’s Resurrection Power.

The legendary Hollywood motion picture executive, Samuel Goldwyn, was one of those people who…