You breathe different in a room when you know it’s not about the good you can accomplish but about the grace you can accept.
 - Ann Voskamp (read the full post here)

I read this quote several months ago and it has stuck with me.  How true it is...when I am with friends who have extended grace, who know my heart, who have walked through the valleys with me and I with them...I breathe more freely, more peacefully, more forgiven.  I've had the blessing of having some sweet friends for many years who have always had a lot of grace to give when I desperately needed it....my life is richer for knowing them and because of their love.  And by giving their gift of grace, I've been drawn closer to the heart of God and closer to realizing the full extravagance of His grace.

Grace is priceless. And so are they.