1 Corinthians 15:10 says: by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. Every discipline in this course is real and requires real effort. But the foundation underneath all of it is grace — not your willpower, not your consistency, not your character. Grace means you are not doing this alone. It also means that when you fall short of these disciplines, that is not the end of the story.