Grace

Photo: Hanna Muregård

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GRACE

During our early morning walk I suddenly felt how grace filled me up, in a moment she sprinkled me with hope and she whispered to me that all is well, there is nothing I have done wrong. To me grace is delicate, infinitely present, flourishing, soft, warm and subtle. She is love.

One of the definitions of grace is ”God’s unmerited favor, love, or help”, and to me grace certainly carries elements of the divine, but she is also a very human experience, perhaps a reminder of how divine we are as humans just by being. I feel her from the inside, just as I feel her spiraling into me from the outside. I am sure every human on this earth have had a moment of and with grace, she does not require anything of us and often appears in the most challenging moments of life. That moment of stillness, when a glimmer of hope out of nowhere sweeps into the heart, where a pause or a space suddenly is found among hardship and suffering.

Even though I find grace to be a very specific feeling, there is such depth behind her. At her core I find truth, naked moments of honesty and surrendering. Perhaps that is why grace often finds her way into those challenging moments, our moments of truth, where we in the midst of chaos and challenge meet our naked self, in the moments where there is nothing more to lose, deny or hide. In the depth of grace there is also gratitude to be found, not the gratitude we force upon us, but the gratitude that naturally unfold by living.

Grace cannot be planned, processed, fabricated or forced, there are no sexy or mystic formula to call her in. In my life I see that grace often comes with stillness, to me she is a fairy like energy closely connected to nature touching me with her magic wand. Most often she only appears for a moment even though that moment can be living within me for the longest of time. I also have experienced periods where I feel she is embracing me on a daily basis, the more honest, open hearted and allowing I am, the closer she is. Grace reminds me of my feminine energy, she feels like a channel or gate opener to my essence and when I feel her presence I know I am right where I am supposed to be.