By grace I live. By grace I am released.
Just an update: I am in New Hampshire now at my mom’s, and having a marvelous time. I go to Maine tomorrow for a week to be near the ocean and do nothing. My sister Leslie got married this past Saturday and it was a spectacular event. My sister is stunning (in person and as a bride) and I kept staring at her all night, in a state of wonder at how PRETTY she is. How come I never noticed it before?? She’s beautiful. The other thing I noticed is that she is in a state of GRACE.
When the hell did this occur????
LOL.
But there it was … I witnessed it with my very own eyes …. my pain in the ass sister Leslie in a state of beauty & grace.
You will get definite examples along the way in your practicing where you will see people/places/events transformed and that is how you know you are tranformed. Leslie didn’t change. I changed. She is as she has always been – perfect – except that I couldn’t see it.
But now I have eyes to see, and it’s right there in front me now.
(and soon I will find a scanner to upload the photos and then you will see it also)
“Grace is an aspect of the Love of God, which is most like the state prevailing in the unity of truth.”
“Grace becomes inevitable instantly in those who have prepared a table where it can be gently laid and is willingly received; an altar clean and holy for the gift.”
NOW WE HAVE WORK TO DO.
“Now we have work to do, for those in time can speak of things beyond, and listen to words which explain what is to come is past already.”
Amazing, right? What is to come is past already. What you think is a future, unknown to you, has already occurred.
“We have repeated several times before that you but make a journey that is done.”
“Yet what meaning can the words convey to those who count the hours still, and rise and work and go to sleep by them?”
“Suffice it, then, that you have work to do to play your part. The ending must remain obscure to you until your part is done. It does not matter.”
I love this. It’s true. I don’t know the specifics of the ending. It remains obscure. I have no idea what is next. I don’t know why I am in New Hampshire. I don’t have a single clue what this day will bring, but I know that there are no mistakes and no accidents. I am exactly where I am and it couldn’t be anything otherwise. If I was supposed to be somewhere else, I would be there instead of here, but I am here!
This is where I am! In this moment! In this location!
Here I am.
Work through me, Lord.
There is a Plan behind appearances. I don’t have to know the specifics of the plan, only the fact that I am part of it … and that there is work to do.
“For your part is still what all the rest depends on. As you take the role assigned to you, salvation comes a little nearer each uncertain heart that does not beat as yet in tune with God”
AND NOW WE ASK FOR GRACE, the final gift salvation can bestow.
We ask for grace, and for the experience that comes from grace. We welcome the release it offers everyone. We do not ask for the unaskable. We do not look beyond what grace can give. For this we give in the grace that has been given us.
Our learning goal today does not exceed this prayer. Yet in the world, what could be more than what we ask this day of Him Who gives the grace we ask, as it was given Him?
By grace I live. By grace I am released.
By grace I give. By grace I will release.
Facebook comments:
can you give us a better definition of grace. as long as Jesus Christ is in charge of our plans and works thru us is there really anything else.I am so grateful that you explain some of these principles in laymen terms. Please continue to help us
Lisa you are grace and graceful. Your vigilance for God and Reality has put me on track like the way ye switch tracks on a railroad or a subway system. In the San Francisco Bay Area, we say “transfer at McArthur” walk across the platform, and catch the other train. By grace there is Natoli-transfer. Gratitudes.
The best description I know of GRACE is contained in today’s Lesson 169:
“Grace is acceptance of the Love of God within a world of seeming hate and fear.”