Today's Journal
PRESENTING GRACE AND TRUTH
The call of God on our lives is not as much to do something as to allow something to be done to us. When the Presentation of Grace is understood it is as Teresa of Avila has said, “You do less and less and God does more and more.” She also said, “we are to seek the God of consolations and not the consolations of God.” Grace and truth are what is done in us and therefore we can let it be done in others.Our Presentation is to be of “grace and truth” to be an acceptable Beauty. Grace and truth came through Jesus. We offer what is “inside” of us as gifts from God, gifts of grace and truth. Truth is a word that describes more than the knowledge we have. The English word “truth” comes from a Germanic root that also gives rise to our word “troth,” as in the ancient vow “I pledge thee my troth.” With this word one person enters into a covenant with another, a pledge to engage in a mutually accountable and transforming relationship, a relationship forged of trust and faith in the face of unknowable risks. To have truth is to know who we are in grace and be willing to make this vulnerable to someone else. Truth contains our internal image of Jesus. This is what we Present. Or, we present something else.
“I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.” Jesus