What “grace” evokes in me.

The quality of Grace is slow. Grace is in a rush only on rare occasions when it arrives with epiphany.

The quality of grace is visioned by the direction of growth in the natural world. Here a stem of a grass in flower. Or there fine branches of wind-swayed weeping willow.

Where creation by the forces of nature is actively at work on growing living life forms, one of the first aspects we notice is our pleasure at their geometrical shapes modulated by the in-built algorithms present in evolution over long timescales.

The way our own physical bodies operate is also determined by our long evolution. We recognise with pleasure how the factors which influence plants, other living things, and even naturally occuring inanimate minerals, cause shapes, forms and patterns to appear which we too display, both in our physical bodies and in our behaviour.

We observe the same patterns encoded through our own evolution, which are intimately concerned with our survival and well-being. These patterns in all of our living selves exist and conform to support our survival. Aeons of tumultuous patient evolution made this so.

The link to grace? It is in our awareness of pleasure at the recognition that our fundamental nature has uncountable numbers of factors in common with all other beings on this planet.

The consequence of letting our focus go to this pleasurable emotion is to realise our individual nature is as Pixels of Humanity. We are possessors in common of alive life.

With such understanding we can see we are not only waking, walking, small, self-sufficient units, but each possessors in common, without our conscious volition, of a portion of alive life with its global, perhaps cosmic reach.

At the point in life when we can fully accept this is our condition, without reservation and with the open-arms of present contentment and humility, we are most likely to sense a force far beyond the capability of our body, so powerful that it defies comparison with material strength.

The quality of such a concept, one which is beyond the scale of our day to day concerns, is also made of the reality we can come into contact with when imagining our place on Earth in contrast to the size of the known universe.

Grace, if we come into recognition of its arrival, floods our life to saturation. Grace reflects back to us with an astronomical power everything of which we are constituted. Grace reflects, it does not add or subtract. Grace has the effect of giving us the power to visualise the powers already available to us, powers innate to every one of us from birth.

Thus Grace is like a key that opens doors, it is like a brightness which shocks us by showing us that the darkness we may have taken for granted as the opposite of light does not and never has existed.

The effect of the acceptance of the presence of Grace, whether we are aware of it deeply or dimly, is to experience intensely the discovery of our arrival in time and place of who and what we are and always have been.

In the West, people tend to overlook the possibility that such epiphany could arise through a visioning for the first time of a force which has always been present with us. Western Dualistic conditioned belief systems anthropomorphise transcendent personal experience, often attributing the origin to externals.

My experience of epiphany in my life has shaped my understanding that there is nothing and no one but myself guiding or leading. All responsibility and all choices are for me to determine, to accept and act upon.