So we have been in program meetings for the past two weeks on Fridays. Today we will continue this trend, so from 12:00 to 5:00 we will work out the kinks of our program, or work out our program. we have been evaluating everything, starting from our mission statement on down. we are trying to decided if our approach needs to be changed, if we are serving our rules instead of the other way around. Part of that discussion has lead us to the question of Grace. And more importantly, can you run a Grace based program and still have accountability and standards. I was listening to a lecture given by a Rescue Mission Consultant and he was in favor of a grace based program. He stated, and i agree, that God has very specific standards that he wants us to follow, there are very certain behaviors that he condones and rejects. So how do we, as a program, enforce or encourage such behaviors in an environment based on Grace? How do we use Grace to bring about life change, which is what our clients come to us for. They are coming to us, asking us to help them change their life, not make them feel better about living they way they are. Grace can not become enabling, but for so long, the Church has had that hard line approach, and it dose not seam to have done much good. Yes, there needs to be standards, but people have to carry those standards. So which do we deal with, the standards or the people. which takes higher precedence, and any one who says that you apply them both equally, they need to come and sit in my office for a few days and then they will see just how hard that really is. This Grace thing is going to be hard, it is going to be messy. oh well, if it was easy, any one could do it.