You stare into the darkness. The ceiling fan whirls above you. Your husband slumbers next to you.

In minutes, the alarm will sound, and the demands of the day will shoot you like a clown out of a

cannon into the three-ringed circus of meetings and bosses and baseball practices.

This is Max Locato. For the millionth time, you'll make breakfast, schedules, and payroll, but for the life of you,

you can't make sense of this thing called life.

It's beginnings and endings, cradles and cancers, and cemeteries, and questions, the meaning

of life, the poor choices of life.

Did you know God answers the mess of life?

With one word, grace.

Do we really understand it?

God in the Bible says,

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you.

That's grace.

Grace calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.

This is Max Lakato.