Meditation on Grace

Starting the Advent season, I find that my spirits are more heavy than usual. I feel burdened by life's tasks and weary; more so, I've been feeling guilt over my inability to accomplish enough with my current resources. In other words, I'm knee deep in humanity.

It's in moments like this when I can use a reminder of what grace is all about. Like a breath of fresh air:

Grace is something you can never get
but only be given.
There’s no way to earn it or deserve it
or bring it about any more than you can
deserve the taste of raspberries and cream
or earn good looks or bring about your own birth.
A crucial eccentricity of the Christian faith
is the assertion that people are saved by grace.
There’s nothing you have to do.
There’s nothing you have to do.
There’s nothing you have to do.

Inhale..... exhale. Thanks be to God.

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