A Level of Grace

There is a day, no, a moment in a day, when out of the blue, it hits you right in the gut: you’re saved by grace. You’ve heard it more times than you can count, even claimed it ‘til you’re blue in the face; yet now, it means something tangible, something of value, something worth telling others about – but not like the little boy who cried “wolf” which, now, all of your previous attempts seem like. Sudden the revealed truth casts a bright, broad light on beliefs you held and championed which now don’t seem to fit within the realm real grace occupies.

For a while you get by playing the role you always had around fellow believers and friends. However, there is a gnawing inside of you, a clawing like nails on a chalkboard which wells up whenever your past belief system is expressed by someone else in your faith community and you see the dissonance. You begin to hold back in conversations, allowing others to express their beliefs of themselves, their lifestyle and their version of god simply because it now seems…appropriate.

You find yourself spending moments thinking about things which include rather than exclude. Your viewing habits shift as you find it difficult to entertain all the hatred and contempt which flows every minute of every hour on and in all forms of media. Even who and what you listen to is affected by this change. Allegiances you staunchly supported melt away because you understand how they arose to keep the “other” out.

Suddenly, people matter. Sure, they might have meant something to you before, but only in the context of how they added to how you viewed yourself and your success. Now, though, they matter simply because they have nothing to add to or take away from you. Their lives matter independently of race creed, color, religion, sexual orientation or gender preference. They’re people in a larger scheme, larger then you or they realize, yet all a part of a whole, a being of one. You recognize faintly at the beginning how no one comprehends this sense of being one, but you’re compelled to experience it with them even from a distance.

Now that people have taken a place in your life, systems, processes, regulations and the institutions which utilize them become abhorrent, simply because they artificially control the people who now have value. Law-abiding unexpectedly means freedom suppression. Pomp and ceremony to the status quo become vignettes to a ruling class structure which no longer appeals to your sacred duty to uphold but rather tires your sensibilities and causes you to wince like a sour note played during a child recital.

Questions now rule since the day grace uncovered you and you’re comfortable with that. Where answers drove you onward and upward, the awareness that all you need, all you seek, all you desire already encompasses you has soothed the angst of unknowing. Wisdom and truth no longer tickle your intellectual palate as much they massage the sense of peace which dwells richly inside of you.

Grace is not a life style but a life lived regardless of your style. It is a process, not a movement. It grows and develops within you naturally without any artificial contrivances designed to excite the emotions or stimulate a sense of duty and honor. Grace levels the playing field of lives, all lives, pre-believers, believers and post-believers alike.

Sense and sensibilities from your pre-grace life heroically got you to this point so don’t get so fired up to discard them as being antiquated. Look at them as the life support system you needed to survive into grace. Others still are hooked up to these systems so don’t be so eager to pull their plug unless you’re ready and prepared to do mouth-to-mouth resuscitation for a very, very long period of time.

There are many below and fewer above you; however, you occupy a unique space in this time. Grace at a level never experienced before about the globe is poised to overtake humanity and it won’t happen because a human-inspired doctrine of it is universally accepted. This is a divine appointment recorded on an eternal calendar.
You are being crafted into the ambassador grace will be displayed through. It is a position you have always been destined to live so allow it grow on you. Grace tends to do that, like yeast in dough; like the kingdom you’re from.