Grace

Maybe you can already see how knowledge insinuates itself in all ways, through all thought – including your spiritual process. You try to think yourself into higher consciousness. You use mental strategies in order to make yourself appear more authentic. You use word to calm the mind of its war of words. You try not to judge and then judge your failed attempts not to judge.

Knowledge harasses the process of learning. Ambition plagues our journey toward selflessness. We’re so sure we know how awareness works. We’re so sure of so many things. We exist in a very small bubble of knowledge – until that bubble bursts and we see the universe as it is. Then knowledge doesn’t appear to be such an important thing.

And this can happen. It is possible to give ourselves the grace to see. What we see may not always please us. It may be hard to observe the patterns that are rooted in us – patterns that were created from the authority we gave certain thoughts and convictions. It may be painful to see and not to judge. But it is possible, through the grace we give ourselves.

Divine Grace is a universal hope. Everyone wishes for the benevolent attentions and interventions of the Creator. What they may not recognize is grace is given in all moments, in all gestures of respect and in all loving interactions. Grace is a given. It has never been lost or denied to us. You can offer it to yourself in your greatest moments of sorrow or frustration. You can bathe yourself in its light every time truth opens you to realization and revelation and whenever you witness to the crimes you commit against yourself. You didn’t know. Forgive yourself, for that is the grace you have longed for. Forgive others for what you believe are trespasses against you.

Feel the force of Divine Grace as it heals the wounds in you and releases you from a self-imposed bondage. The sensation of grace as it is administered through you is indeed amazing. The effect of grace is everlasting.