Buechner wrote that “life itself is grace”. Follow me for the next twelve weeks, as I write about what that means for a twenty year old follower of Jesus studying poor people in South Africa. Hopefully, I will remember this given experience as a story about Jesus again crowning himself in my own heart for His greater purposes and His kingdom, a story of the “inward coronation,” wrote George Buttrick, “that takes place among confession, and tears, and great laughter.”