‘Peace’ means “I have forgiven all those sins against me.”
This is an excerpt from Remembering Your Baptism: A Sinner Saint Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2025) by Kathy Morales, pgs 6-9.
Paradoxes hold everything together, not just in Inception’s plot, but in your life and mine.

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Wisdom and strength require bootstrap-pulling and the placing of noses to grindstones.
The Church speaks not with the cleverness of men, but with the breath of God.
This is the first installment in the 1517 articles series, “What Makes a Saint?”
The baptized do not celebrate sin—they grieve it.
Should you then abandon David’s plea that God use his law against his enemies and send a Legal Avenger? No, the law must be preached to the Christian (insofar as he is not one).
Dave weaves together music, movies, and documentaries to illustrate all the ways we seek relief—and then, full and free, he connects our need to Christ’s gift.
On second thought: Keep Lent, but sacrifice your concept of it.
The Psalm now is this: as Christ suffered and then was exalted, so we are also in him.
In response to the Lord's undeserved love, Manasseh looked to him as the true God.
Is there a significant difference between changing your mind and doing penance? Absolutely.
Repentance is not limited to a season.
In the upside-down wisdom of God, the place of the cross becomes the place of life, absolution, and triumph.