This afternoon my eldest, who is 14, made an insightful comment. While reading Jane Eyre, she was struck by how outwardly "respectable" and "moral" people appeared, but that, while looking down upon and disdaining the "unrespectable," they seemed to know very little about grace. The comment that struck me as insightful was when she observed that it is the sick who need a doctor.  After all, it was Jesus himself who said, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick... for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners" (from Mt. 9:12-13).  In other words, the gospel allows no well visits. There is only one waiting room. The gospel says that we are all sick and in need of saving and sustaining grace. At least I am. God forbid that I become respectable. I so deserperately want to know much about grace.