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Daily Question, August 22

What is grace?

  • DeVonna

    Grace = Gods Riches At Christ’s Expense

  • GratefulOne

    From the Oxford Dictionary origin:

    Middle English: via Old French from Latin gratia, from gratus ‘pleasing, thankful’; related to grateful.

    I am called to these definitions also:

    simple elegance or refinement of movement.

    AND

    in Christian belief) the free and unmerited favor of God, as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowal of blessings.

    It’s also my daughter’s middle name 🙂

  • Michele

    “simple elegance or refinement of movement.” – dictionary definition. I think of dancers …. I also think it goes along with dignity, having grace and dignity.

  • Dusty Su
    Much as everyone has said so far. Also, a supernatural ability to see things as they really are and then as they will be if love has its way. I just wrote about that today wherein I was enabled to companion a man on his journey to death purely through the grace of love. He had such putrid cancers on his face that even the nurses found it difficult to work with him. Grace taught me how to better show up for the other. The unbearable became beautiful because we met in a place beyond our wounds, an...

    Much as everyone has said so far. Also, a supernatural ability to see things as they really are and then as they will be if love has its way. I just wrote about that today wherein I was enabled to companion a man on his journey to death purely through the grace of love. He had such putrid cancers on his face that even the nurses found it difficult to work with him. Grace taught me how to better show up for the other. The unbearable became beautiful because we met in a place beyond our wounds, and a glorious oneness made compassion bigger than pain. Pure, grace-filled love.

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    • Katrina

      Dusty Su – that is beautiful. Is the definition of “the supernatural ability…” original with you? It is awesome!

      • Dusty Su

        Thank you Katrina. Yes, I believe it is my definition. I don’t remember learning it elsewhere, but we are the sum of many other’s thoughts… <3

  • EJP

    Grace is putting your heart out in front of you while doing the hardest thing you’ve ever had to do in your life.

    • Dusty Su

      Yes, that sure can be part of it. I wrote about the enabling grace gives when led by love above too.

  • Kevin

    Grace manifests itself in many ways and forms; in certain people, in things and special places, and in situations of daily living that seem to appear without human planning or manipulation. Grace may also possess elements of the Divine, or God, and Spirit, which is felt, yet unseen, imbued in a one’s soul by a source not our own.

    In short, grace is grease for the stickiness and everydayness of life.

    • Dusty Su

      Kevin, “grace is grease for the stickiness and everydayness of life…” that’s a good way to say it!

      • Mica

        Thank you, Dusty Su and Kevin – I’ll add that to my gratefulness document 📃 📄 – there, I even put Kevin’s quote in bold type –

        • Dusty Su

          Love that we find these gems in this group….Gratefulness document is a great thing to create Mica.

  • Christine

    Letting love and respect be the basis.
    A kind heart in charge 💛

  • Mary Pat

    The meaning for me has changed through the years. A simple answer for me is a no-strings-attached-gift-given-freely.

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