Love and Grace

What do I know about love and grace?

Graham came over yesterday - we shared our hopes, fears and potential for the life we are looking forward towards. Then, he mentioned grace. In this western world of the human potential movement we are still assailed with the burden of becoming our better selves. Grace he spoke, was about this free gift of ok-ness that takes you just as you are. That we are ok now. Does that take away from all the work we do to get better ourselves, to clear of our trauma so we pass on a better inheritance to our moko? Of course not. But it is acknowledging how far the pendulum has swung away from religion and towards the never ending struggle for human enlightenment and betterment. Grace says, I’m ok, your ok - in your this-ness - nothing more required. Christ had and has this energy - which is why some prominent thinkers are returning to him in earnest. The wild Christ of the wilderness.

And love?

Well, I come upon that because my heart is full of fear. I’m asking love to come in, perfect love that conquers all fear. I need it today - more and more - love that holds all - bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. All other things fail. I choke up as I write this - my heart is sore and tired from worry - worry about the things I cannot control. So I choose love - its not a feeling - I don’t feel better - but I know by calling it up in me - a being made of love, love itself even - can come online and coax this fearful soul back into the field, nay the river of life. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you.

Nothing else really matters when love is at the centre - and this is where it is - where it works and where it will stay. xxx