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Grace is the joyful gratitude which transforms and transcends the apparent difficulties of life.
Grace is the clear and calm sea after a storm has churned up and washed away extraneous debris.
Grace is being "in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own" ~ Anne Lamott in "Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith"
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Amazing Grace
What is grace?
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Tools for Grace
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Grace is Divine Love - Grace is the powerful, joyful, and grateful attitude which transcends by transforming the apparent difficulties of life. Grace is the awake, aware, enlightened state of being. Grace is awareness of the natural order of the universe - ie the Tao. Grace is divine love, the experience of God's presence. Grace is a prolonged "Ah-ha" moment. Grace is cognitive harmony, the opposite of cognitive dissonance.
Grace Transforms - Grace transforms difficulties into wisdom and compassion. Grace is a catalyst for more grace. In terms of chemistry, grace is a catalyst and it is also the product. Grace is like the flame which can light many candles.
Grace is Universal - Grace is God's unfailing commitment
to love, because God is love. Some believe that they can attain grace only through Jesus or only through some other teacher or path. They can attain grace by following the essential teachings of Jesus, which are the same as the essential teachings of Buddha, Moses, Mohammed, your enlightened and loving grandmother, and many others. All people, regardless of religion, history, and ability have access to grace. In theory, grace is universal in that it is available to all, regardless of religion or history. Grace is like each person has already won the lottery: it is available to all who chose to claim their winnings.
Grace is Awareness - Grace is the transformative realization of joy, despite the seeming difficulties of life. Some call this state of awareness nirvana, bliss, joy, flow, or enlightenment. Others call it grace. People attain grace via various paths. One path is through the integration of various aspects of ourselves, including the integration of our understanding of science and spirituality, between evolution and religion.
Grace is Faith - People can find more solid and lasting faith in an evolving God than in a static, unchanging God. Over the past 500 years, discoveries in science have weakened the authority of religion and eroded some people's belief in a benevolent Creator, simultaneously eroding people's faith in a benevolent God. The primary goal of this web site is to return faith to those who have lost it through initial disillusion of science. Even if this universe is not the creation of an Intelligent Designer (which is not verifiable one way or the other), God exists, and is more magnificent, powerful and loving than we ever knew. We can still enjoy the benefits of faith in knowing that there exists a wise, loving and powerful God who protects and cares for us. God is Here and Now, and we can receive from and give to this God to create Heaven on Earth. Even if we evolved by forces other than Divine Plan, it does not negate the existence, meaning or purpose of either life, humans, or of God. Knowing the story of Evolution creates an even greater sense of awe of the Divine.
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