November 27, 2003
“Grace happens”
A college chaplain friend of mine turned out a counterrevolutionary bumper sticker that reads, “Grace Happens.”
Celebrating Thanksgiving Day in the churches, as some do, seems altogether redundant. After all, every Sunday and every other feast day is, for us, a Day of Thanksgiving, a Eucharist, a time and place to “say grace.”
There’s nothing so newsworthy about thanking God. Everybody’s doing it. But there’s all the “news that’s fit to print” about God’s thanking us with God’s grace. Around the Eucharist table, around the Thanksgiving board, grace happens.