Giving Yourself and Others Grace

Giving Yourself and Others Grace

Every New Year’s, instead of making a traditional resolution (you know, the kind that usually fades by February), I pick a theme for my year—a single word or short phrase to guide me. In the past, I’ve had themes like “Live with Intention,” “Execution,” and “Live Frugally.”

For 2025, my word is Grace—as in, grace for myself and grace for others. And now that it’s somehow already November (seriously, how did that happen?!), I’m taking a little check-in moment to see how I’ve done living it out.

But before we dive into that, let’s pause for a second—what does it actually mean to give grace to yourself and to others? We hear the word all the time in church, worship songs, and Scripture, but what does it look like in real, everyday life?