A FORM OF GRACE

I am still thinking some about yesterday’s Journal entry on ‘How Love Prospers.’ I continue with the idea that ‘silence is a language’ and so grace is a silent form of blessing.

John O’Donohue (1956-2008) Irish poet and author wrote:

“A blessing is a form of grace; it is invisible. Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness. There are no limits to it… For one who believes in it, a blessing can signal the start of a journey of transformation. It belongs to the same realm as the inner life— its effect becomes only indirectly visible in the changed quality of one’s experience. Where before gravity and deadness had prevailed, there is now a new sense of animation and lightness. Where there was grief, a new sense of presence comes alive. In the wall of blindness, a window of vision opens.” (From ‘To Bless the Space Between Us’)

“Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.” Jesus