I want to ask you to consider this title: Law or Grace. Think about the world you would like to inhabit. Would you prefer to live in a world of Law? Now, let me ask you, how about living in a world shaped by Grace?

 I have contemplated this since my childhood, and there was a stark reason for that circumstance. You see, I felt the law AND grace of God as a child. I was educated Catholic from kindergarten to the ninth grade. We believed the Ten Commandments as the Law, our law. Same for Catechism. Salvation was only by faith AND good works. Deviation was mortal sin and damnation, and that from these deviations came discipline—always meted out here on earth by the good sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary at St. Matthew’s School in East Stroudsburg, PA.