Cultivating grace. What does this mean. Is it different for each person? Does it have qualifiers?

I googled it and came up with little I was not already thinking. I find it as a sort of catch all for all those moments when I have a sense of understanding. when I get it. Whatever ‘it’ is.

I have been considering the implications for some time now. Perhaps even all my life. Have all of my life lessons this far been leading to this very moment? Or are
they leading to some future moment. Maybe it has all been about a fleeting moment, already past.

An entire lifetime is spent cultivating grace. Every moment remembered leads toward it. Perhaps grace is evident in these moments all along, and as the stored quantity of grace increases, the awareness of it shifts. It is enormously subtle, and then one day it dawns much like the sun.

Grace arrives in many shrouds. It is the recognizing that can be complex. Or simple. If very fortunate, it arrives totally naked. But that is rare.

2 comments:
eb said…
This is fucking brilliant.

Oh…ifly
May 30, 2007 6:53 PM

Jeanne said…
The theory of cultivating grace could be no more well explained than this. I agree with e… brilliant!

…and while i do NOT f l y … i DO l y, my wonderful friend. lol!
May 31, 2007 1:48 PM