When exploring Grace for my little book, The Abundance of Grace, I came across many inspiring passages which I interspersed with my own reflections. Here are a few, simply to remind us that every breath is itself a grace.
Grace is the door
to the peace beyond the mind.
~Rumi
Grace is unity,
oneness with ourselves,
oneness with God.
-Thomas Merton
Grace, brothers,
makes no conditions and singles out
none of us in particular;
grace takes us all to its bosom
and proclaims general amnesty.
~Isaak Dineson
Grace waits nearby
to flood the heart with light.
It is up to us to
open the heart’s windows,
unlock the door,
and make an altar there for the spirit…
~Ingrid Goff-Maidoff
For more selections from the book, here is a link to an article of excerpts called Reflections on Grace.
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I’m loving your original thought on Grace here, Ingrid. It is stunning and I don’t think I have read it before. I love the last line especially about making “an altar for the spirit.” It seems to me that this is what our entire life should be–an altar for the spirit. Oh, such good stuff!