There we’ll all be, gathered around the banquet table, not just the perfect people but also the other 99.9 percent of humanity. The prodigal son and his hard-partying buddies, the joyful father; the oldest son, and his responsible friends too, they’re all there along with you, and me, and my cousins, and all those who have gone before.
And suddenly, in the midst of this banquet, there’s a moment when we finally realize that all the jockeying for position we did in our lives, all the resentment, competition, and score-keeping, is meaningless because we didn’t earn our place at this abundant table, but got here through God’s extravagant grace.
from “Spiritual but Not Religious” is Not Enough