Grace. It is a word that is that is spoken about a lot, especially in church and among Christian friends, but what is it? What does it mean?
By the simplest definition grace is “unmerited favor” or “unconditional love.” It’s the exercise of love and kindness to benefit or serve another.
A disposition to kindness and compassion.
Giving or saying grace before a meal. Giving thanks.
As I began my research about the meaning of this important word, I became very intrigued. There are lots of ways you can interpret it.
As I live in our world today, I am aware that grace is needed so very much.
We as aware beings, people that want to see our world and country succeed, know it’s time for us to take a deep look at grace and begin living from it.
You can take responsibility for yourself and how you’re showing up in the world each and every minute of the day.
Hopefully this article will help you to look within and help you to make some changes toward living a life in grace.
A helpful definition from Paul Zahl:
“Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. It is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. And it’s being loved when you are unlovable…. The cliché definition of grace is “unconditional love.”
Let’s go a little further, though. Grace is a love that has nothing to do with you. It has everything and only to do with the lover. Grace is irrational in the sense that it has nothing to do with weights and measures. It has nothing to do with your intrinsic qualities or so-called “gifts” (whatever they may be). It reflects a decision on the part of the giver, the one who loves, in relation to the receiver, the one who is loved, that negates any qualifications the receiver may personally hold…. Grace is one-way love.”
“Grace is being loved when you are unlovable.”
As I continued my research, I found so many rich meanings of this beautiful word.
Many people have experienced “grace moments.” Intuitively, they know what it is, but trying to express this idea is challenging. Here are ideas of what it produces inside of you:
- Alignment with the Divine
- Awakening
- Authenticity
- Balance
- Bliss
- Clarity
- Connection
- Courage
- Divine Love
- Effortlessness
- Leads to Faith
- Flexibility
- Flow
- Flows from Source/God
- Flows Toward Divine
- Freedom
- Gratitude
- Gentleness
- Beyond Happiness
- Harmony with the Whole
- Interdependence
- Sense of Oneness
- Patience
- Peaceful
- Power
- The Precious Present
- Strength
- Transformation
As you search your heart about your thoughts of what this powerful word means to you, I hope you will find many of the things listed here, as a way you choose to live.
Courage is grace under pressure.
I would love to hear your thoughts on all of this.
Leave me a comment or send me an email.
Many blessings,
Connie
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Thanks for gathering these thoughts, Connie! To me, GRACE from Creator is vibrant light coming to me, flooding me, healing me, enlightening me. Then as I open myself as a channel– GRACE floods through me to the world around me, enlightening and lighting up corners of darkness in others and our world. Everything seems more divine, more beautiful, less hopeless when its glowing in GRACE. The other day when I forgot to bring something with me and had to turn my car around and go back and then come back the same way, it occurred to me that perhaps those people whose homes I was passing a second time needed a double dose of GRACE flowing through me that evening. Ha!
Thank you Shirley for your beautiful thoughts! It really is a topic that I have not thought about before. I love to share things to get people thinking and sharing!
Blessings to you,
Connie
I appreciate this thoughtful Blog on Grace.
I was particularly drawn to Paul Zaul’s definition. I now want to Google his name to learn about him.
I have definitely felt myself the recipient of Grace at some of the most challenging moments of my life.
Or, maybe those times are just when I noticed Grace ‘s mystical flow. Now, that I ponder Grace, I see that it flows toward me in seemingly small ways throughout my day.
May we all learn to harness our own abilities to bestow Grace as we travel this earth journey together.
Blessings to you Connie.
So beautiful Liz~! Thanks for your insights and feelings. Yes, may we all learn our own abilities to bestow Grace as we are on our journey here.
Blessings to you my friend!~
Connie