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Daily Question, August 25

What is grace?

  • Patjos

    Sometimes Grace can be tears.

  • Dave Mac

    Grace is what we know intuitively but can’t describe accurately, it is the infinite that we can not grasp, it is the source that we strive for and when we touch are marked with love. Grace abounds and it is where gratefulness is born.

  • Paula Madriles

    Grace. Gracie. Grace Elizabeth Madriles. GEM 7/11/86 - 9/21/2002. I can't separate the word, the name, my daughter. She was/is all that Grace means. Loving, caring, generous. She never had an unhappy moment in her life. Her death from a car accident was instant - never went to the hospital. We had her in our lives for 16 years, and in our hearts forever. Her memory and spirit lives on in the organization founded in her memory in El Paso, TX, Books are GEMS. Because of her, millions of...

    Grace. Gracie. Grace Elizabeth Madriles. GEM 7/11/86 – 9/21/2002. I can’t separate the word, the name, my daughter. She was/is all that Grace means. Loving, caring, generous. She never had an unhappy moment in her life. Her death from a car accident was instant – never went to the hospital. We had her in our lives for 16 years, and in our hearts forever. Her memory and spirit lives on in the organization founded in her memory in El Paso, TX, Books are GEMS. Because of her, millions of books have been given away to kids in the border area.

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    • Dave Mac

      God Bless you and your Gracie! I can feel God’s Grace by reading about your Gracie.

  • Amor fati

    These answers are so beautiful.

    How blessed…we all have felt grace’s gentle breeze even if we struggle to find a definition. How I love a joyful mystery!

  • Always Learning

    To me, grace is the essence of God’s love and light. It may be felt or sensed in times of gratitude, peace, and unconditional love.

  • Christina

    I don’t really know what it is either…I suspect it’s when the laborious becomes easy. I guess it’s an unearned gift, which I have generally missed–but I’m gettin’ better at it!

  • Kit

    Grace is love unassembled.

  • kathleen

    I don’t know what Grace is: I think it is a kind of loveliness that is always present in the universe at all times and I am entitled to it if I can align myself with receiving it.

  • StephX

    Grace is the blessing that we acquire when we do any worthy thing, from prayer, to helping a friend, to thanking someone. It is a spiritual armor of resilience in the face of negativity. It makes us more flexible, thoughtful, reflective and forgiving. It is an act that saves us, and saves the world.

  • KC

    A quiet, invisible healing energy that touches, shapes, teaches, forms, informs, blesses, guides and companions us for on our journeys. …

    • Susan

      I am really touched by your answer to ‘What is Grace?’ It’s not an easy question nor does it have an easy answer. Grace is definitely beyond our own limitations of love.

      • KC

        Thank you Jill, Such beautiful words – that grace is beyond our own limitations of love. I think of the story of the man who wrote the song Amazing Grace. I believe he was a slave trader, had a change of heart (grace?) in the middle of the ocean, turned the ship around and headed back to Africa with a full ship of people destined for America and life as slaves. And – he wrote a song that has captured grace for many generations ::-) I hope I have this story close enough :-)!

  • Rachel Barton

    Grace is that unexpected, unearned ease that puts you in the flow of connection and creativity.

  • Francine Marie Tolf

    From a poem of mine, “The Cottonwood Tree”

    . . . I’ll only say it’s morning now,
    and in young light, I understand
    a little more that thing called grace,
    for sweet as chimes in summer wind,

    my cottonwood is lulling me
    as if I were her only child.
    I listen to her loveliness,
    remembering hope. Becoming healed.

    • Amor fati

      Oh, Francine………you’ve bathed my heart with unearned healing balm…..Grace, for sure. Blessings be.

    • KC

      Francine. Thank you for sharing your beautiful words????????

      • Francine Marie Tolf

        Thank you KC! I was feeling so low and so worthless as I lay there and then I heard this tree just loving me and tears started to flow. This happened years ago, but one never forgets Grace.

        • KC

          Francine, Oh my goodness, your story and experience is so touching, and helps me to appreciate the words of your poem even more. Now I must reflect more deeply on grace, and my own experiences. Your deep listening and poetry is such a generous gift! Wishing you many magical moments of grace on your journey…. .

    • K

      lovely, Francine. Thank you.
      Kim

  • SeeAreLow

    Grace is the simplicity we find in all living things.

  • Kay Cottrill

    Grace is what gives us hope in the world

  • Cinjesh

    Grace is a “knowing” and an action that shows outwardly to others that you are confident in yourself and a respect for others for a situation or feeling.You are at peace.

  • Hot Sauce

    On a theological level, I define grace as the unearned, free gifts of the Universe that are ours for the taking if we only open ourselves to them. The reign of heaven is like a vast library of thousands of books. A certain person didn't know that the library existed in his hometown, but when the person discovered it, that person checked out every book that person wanted. Before discovering the library, she thought finding the books would be impossible, but now that it was known, her inner knowin...

    On a theological level, I define grace as the unearned, free gifts of the Universe that are ours for the taking if we only open ourselves to them. The reign of heaven is like a vast library of thousands of books. A certain person didn’t know that the library existed in his hometown, but when the person discovered it, that person checked out every book that person wanted. Before discovering the library, she thought finding the books would be impossible, but now that it was known, her inner knowing that the library was there made it easier. Whoever has ears, let that one hear!

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  • Deb

    The word itself has a sound that helps describe it. A definition seems nebulous. A verb, perhaps.
    Grace extended. Grace accepted. Felt.
    Heavenly. Now.

  • Aine

    Grace is a really big question! Kevin is right; you cannot pin it down, you can only feel it. Grace cannot be understood with the head, it must be felt with the heart.

  • Ed Schulte

    What is Grace?

    The felt movement of Love/Beauty/Joy/Kindness/Gratitude/Guidance
    between Source and receiver, such as in transmitting Prayers and Blessings.

    In other words Love/Beauty/Joy/Kindness/Gratitude/Guidance in action, …..flowing to, dancing to, illuminating to…….any receiver with the awareness to sense it’s existence, it’s power.

    In as few words as possible …Holy Spirit.

    • Amor fati

      How lovely…I deeply sense the presence of movement in the gift of grace

    • Gina

      It is that gentle breeze that is always there, and when I pay attention and notice it alights upon me…..emanating from a great source

      • Ed Schulte

        Yes Indeed Dear Gina!

        And while here ..paying a gentle wave of gratefulness to Brother David’s words ”

        “The Trinity…Father, Son and Holy Spirit… it is the “Why, What and How of our Being-ness.

        “”How” is the “mysterium” in the inexhaustible Dynamic of Being itself.”

  • Kevin

    I do not know what grace is. I only know how grace feels as it gently arrives, passes through, opening doors and smoothing every way forward.

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