Click above to listen to Grace and Truth, from my first album Walk in the Light. You can listen to and play the  CD or MP3 Album or Sheet Music or hear this song on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and more. What do the words “grace and truth” bring to mind? Fifteen years ago this month (in May 2000), I composed my first ever Scripture inspired piano melody. I had been meditating on John 1:14 which reads, “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth” (NIV). Musically, this piano composition features a higher, simple section symbolizing the gentleness and patience of God’s grace, and a lower, big chord section representing the strength and power of God’s truth. I have thought a lot about this song and verse. The following ten ideas to live out grace and truth are from my journey since writing the music fifteen years ago. In the midst of corresponding lures of the world, perfection is unattainable, but little by little, progress is possible. I hope these inspire the story you are living out… Jesus’s Grace and Truth  /  Lures of the World 1. Love and listen to people first  /  Judge people without knowing their story 2. Offer grace and forgiveness  /  Seek to always be right 3. Create more to serve others  /  Consume more for me 4. Give generously  /  Store up selfishly 5. Spend strategically (family vacation)  /  Bank on the future (secure retirement) 6. Pursue childlike wonder and awe  /  Settle for more seriousness and less joy 7. Practice simplicity and silence  /  Overdose on busyness and noise 8. Work at solitude and surrender  /  Join the crowd and be self-reliant 9. Take one step toward God’s big dream  /  Predetermine big dreams will never work 10. Abide in God’s purpose to receive  /  Strive for success to achieve Which of these inspires you the most?