Grace and Corruption Mingled

So Schmoogli Pierson has been here for about a week now. Its all good she's fun to have
around, although, I think her and third daughter and former editor Buggles could find
a lot of trouble if left to themselves, you know what I mean? Girls will be girls,whatta
ya gonna do?
This past Tuesday we finished a year long study of a book by Thomas Watson; A Godly Mans
Portrait. We hadda good time with a good book from an old dead guy, Marone, I really
like those kind of books! Here is a little taste for you to dip your beak in:
"There are, in the best of saints, interweavings of sin and grace: a dark side with the
light; much pride mixed with humility; much earthliness with heavenliness. Grace in the
godly smacks of an old crabtree stock.
No, in many of the regenerate there is more corruption than grace. So much smoke that
you can scarcely discern any fire; so much distrust that you can hardly see any faith
(1Sam.27:1); so much passion that you can hardly see any meekness. Jonah, a peevish
prophet, quarrels with God, no, he justifies his passion:"I do well to be angry, even
unto death(Jonah4:9). Here there was so much passion that it was hard to see any grace.
A Christian in this life is like a glass that has more froth than wine, or like a
diseased body that has more fluids than vigour. It may humble the best to consider how
much corruption is interlarded with their grace."

Ciao,
D.