Does God exist because there is grace or does grace exist because there is a God? Grace as all that is beuatiful in life, that touches you as a human being, your heart, that charms you, makes you feel alive, gives a purpose to the moments of each day. A purpose even in the mundane and in the boredom of living. Grace I believe is what makes everything beautiful for it transforms and creates and lingers in the profoundness of existence. Grace is no respector of persons or beliefs or anything actually - grace is open and free to everyone...we merely have to awaken to it, out of our sleep and begin seeing it in our lives. Grace is a friend on the journey of life whether you believe in God or not, grace does not go away or hide from you...grace is always there.
Some other thoughts:
“... Because I know that time is always time
And place is always and only place
And what is actual is actual only for one time
And only for one place
I rejoice that things are as they are ...”
-T.S. Eliot
“Jesus had a kind of differentness that drew people to him. True spirituality is that way.”
-John Ortberg
“The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.”
-Frederick Buechner
"There has never been another day like today, and there will never be another just like it again"
~Frederick Buechner.
Note: thanks to Andrew Sullivan's "The Daily Dish" again for the cross imgae and the T.S. Eliot quote.
How much lighter trials become when we realize
ReplyDeleteGod'e grace is twofold. It is not only the happy ending. It is also the peace we can feel during a painful journey, when we trust in God--all the way.