Grace

Couple of quotes from the sermon The Open Yoke:  Matthew 11:25-30 by Barbara Brown Taylor in the book The Seeds of Heaven:

• I may beleive that my life depends on God's grace, but I act like it depends on me and how many good deeds I can perform, as if every day were a talent show and God had nothing better to do that keep up with my score.
• Human beings have a perverse way of turning Jesus' easy yoke back into a hard one again, by driving ourselves to do, do, do more and whipping ourselves to be, be, be more when all God has ever asked is that we belong to him.