Grace

Grace is the overflowing of the Divine. Grace intercedes for us beyond our human condition; Spirit provides us an with opportunities that depend on our ability to receive. The Universe provides for us not according to our just deserts, but by our ability to evolve. Therefore, gratitude and grace are coupled when Spirit provides opportunities to acknowledge the Force outside of ourselves.

Grace moves us from Karma, the law of action and reaction to resolution. Often the vehicle is forgiveness. Forgives is that effulgent state that transmutes and heals. We are all woven with patterns from our past, and interwoven with relationship patterns. We tend to recreate these patterns over and over. These patterns are impressed on our very being, sometimes conscious and sometimes unconscious. Until, these patterns are released, change is not always effected. Much like a record in the groove we skip back into the same pattern, until something jolts us and we can move forward.

Forgiveness is not a benevolent state that we grant upon another fellow being. Forgiveness is always for ourselves. Forgiving is forgetting. One must forget the old patterns and relearn new ways of dancing with our fellow man. In forgetting we experience a total state of freedom. In forgetting we are free from our past preconceptions and preoccupations and respond to what is happening right here and now.

Release the thoughts that are not of love, and we release the need to attack and defend. It is only when we judge wrongly that we must judge again. Judgment must always be of love, and we may need to suffer sacrifice to enhance and lift another being in His Holy Eyes.

Freedom is not limited to our physical being. Our mind and souls must also be free from the fears of moving about this universe and experiencing love. Fear always looks back, we project that into the future, and respond without viewing reality. In this distorted world of fear we must always attack or retreat from our perceived evil.

Grace moves us from Karma, the law of action and reaction to resolution. We are all we need to be. God will provides us with the tools to meet each challenge as long as we request his assistance.

Our outer mind alone cannot connect with the Divine and find that state within called Grace. We may shout from the top of the highest mountain that we desire change, but that will not transform our Spirit. Seeking a new guru will not help us obtain the state of grace because it is an inside job. We must be connected with that Power in the universe beyond man. God supplies us with answers, it is up to us to use them. We cannot become fanatical, continually pleading with God for a different answer. We must be resigned that what we have right here and now is the lesson we need to be working on. Hind sight is 20/20 and over a period of time we may gain insight that God's plan provided us with much more of life that what we were requesting from Him.