GRACE CALL US ALL HOME TO UNION

Grace is the most mysterious of words. This is why I love it. It is a doorway to the beloved, an entry point to the unspeakable, yet also a way into the vastness of love.

Grace means something different to everyone. Yet in it is softness. There is no hardness in grace, no force, no heat, no fight. Yet also there may be fierceness. Ram Dass spoke of ‘the fierce grace’ of his Guru when he was hit by a stroke.

To know grace we must step outside ourselves, or fall inside ourselves. To know grace asks that we take a much deeper and more unconditional view of life. As though we see the suffering, the pain, the joy, the heartache and even the hatred and violence, from the eyes of the beloved, beyond judgement but yet without coldness or detachment. It is a profound invitation to transcend ourselves.

My invitation to you is to allow the notion of grace, even without knowing exactly what it is, to permeate you in body, mind and soul. Let it speak to you while you silently court it, it may whisper secret truths you need to hear.

Ultimately grace is realizing that union is all there is.

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If you don’t have integrity
You don’t have that much
Even if you have money, fame or power
Without integrity
It is all empty.

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Drink of the ocean of the eternal
The wave is but a small expression
Of that vastness
Yet draws all the attention

So it is with us
Thought is but a small expression
Of our vastness
But draws all the attention

Be rooted in that which beyond thought.

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Grace is letting go
Of all ideas of how 
It should or shouldn’t be
And resting in how it is.

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It is far healthier
For the soul
To find a way
Of turning towards grief
And suffering
Than to turn away from it
In denial or fear.

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Even that hot emotion
Or indignant thought
Is a child of god
Wanting to be loved
And welcomed home.

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Vulnerability
Is the ego's way
Of describing openness.

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All it takes 
Is for one flower
To remember its source
And inherent nature
And to begin dancing
In that joy

Soon the other flowers
Start to remember
Ignited and inspired
By that single dancing flower

Before long the whole garden is dancing
To the divine music of what is. 

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Love purifies
The burdened heart
But that purification
May first bring up
All that was not loved
And the healing will hurt.

We feel now
What we could not feel then.

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Grace is when personal will and divine will
Are known as one.

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I was blessed to meet someone 
Who was empty and silent
It forced me to attend 
To the restlessness and noise with me
And when all my needy games 
Were met with a mirror
I had to truly face myself
And come undone
Until I too
Became empty and silent.

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A beautiful building catching the light this morning in Santa Fe.

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