Grace

What is grace?

Why do people seek it?

It is used in a variety of ways in your language. You can say grace before dinner which means it is a prayer like experience. You can be “graceful” which means elegant and smooth as though you were a swan floating on a lake or a dancer flying through the air. You can grace others with your presence and by that you mean you are “giving” of yourself to others by appearing to them, but what is “grace’ when it means asking for forgiveness or allowance from God? 

What is it you are seeking when you ask for grace? Forgiveness? Allowance? Indemnification? Are you asking for behaviours that might not be to your highest and best purpose to be forgiven? Are you asking for the rules of life to be set aside for this occasion or incident so that you might be allowed to try again? Who are you trying to seek forgiveness from truly? Is it really God or whomever you worship or are you trying to find a way to give yourself a free pass. 

If you ask for grace are you saying “0h I didn’t mean this and if I appear repentant it won’t count?” What do you think counts? If you know that the behaviour you have just exhibited is not in your best and highest interest why do you seek grace from “on high” rather than analyzing your behaviour and making a commitment to not exhibit that behaviour again? Please think about what you ask for when you ask for forgiveness, direction, or grace if you will. These are not things to be taken lightly. These are things in which you are making a commitment to movement along a path and then you falter and then you ask for “grace” and then you expect that it will be forgiven or maybe wiped from the slate. This could be true but why do you want it wiped from the slate if you plan on doing it again and again and again? That is just a behaviour problem that needs to be dealt with; it is not a true seeking of grace. You do not need to be forgiven by a greater power if you can look at your own behaviour and realize that it is not in your best and highest interest and simply stop the behaviour. You then give yourself the greatest gift. Freedom! 

We leave you in love.

Namaste

From We Are All In This Alone - A Spiritual Journey to Self - Insights of Babaji by Heather Cronrath. Available on this website.