"Accept grace before you can offer it Devon Franklin describes how his life falling apart forced him to understand grace not as an abstract concept but as a lived practice. Before that, he admits, "I don't want to need grace — I just want to go ahead and move and live life and let everybody know everything's cool." Only after sitting in his own brokenness did he learn that "grace is the amazing leveler" that removes the hierarchy between people. Someone who applies this stops performing recovery and starts actually processing it, which is the only way they can extend real empathy to others. Source: Devon Franklin, Undefined (RC & Friends style interview podcast), Devon Franklin Episode"