Grace

Our lives are filled with joys and challenges.  Each day brings a plateful.  We have the power to experience our lives as gifts or as burdens.  I am grateful for the gift of grace.  On days when things have hung heavily around my neck, or events have startled me into fear, I have experienced grace unexpectedly.  That's the nature of grace.  It is a lovely surprise.  A gentle hand reaching out to bring me back to myself.  I am able, at some point, in some way, to reach out and request assistance, and my request is graciously answered.  

"Our passion for life is quietly sustained from somewhere in us that is wedded to the energy and excitement of life.  This shy inner light is what enables us to recognize and receive our very presence here as a blessing.  We enter the world as heirs to a harvest of memory, spirit, and dream that has long preceded us and will now enfold, nourish, and sustain us.  The gift of the world is our first blessing."                                                                                          --John O'Donohue