Grace Sacrifices
Grace, Randy Thomas
o The words expressed in the Compassionate Humanity Community website are indeed eloquent and inspirational. There is however a “word” and affirmation that I sense is missing: - Grace. I don’t intend to get into a mental game of the meaning of word play here. Let’s keep our conversations in the dualistic domain of separating knowledge from life that often creates dissonance from a deeper resonance of our hearts and center of being.
The compelling question is how might we name and reference this in a way that might be meaningful for All? Is not honoring the primacy of Grace and Mercy, an integral and “holistic” way of affirming our shared intention and aspirations of the work “labor of love” we are drawn to? Are not our efforts to form, develop, deepen , expand, co-create this Compassionate Way of Living and Being? Ways to be open in exploring many pathways in communion with others, our way of receiving and responding, to Grace and Mercy that is already being freely given? Doesn’t this involve and integrate all our human faculties, and also a way of being open to further revelation and Mystery? Is not our growing process and movement a continual Quest and “practice” of struggling to find balance of our personal and collective wills with Grace?
Though “Grace” may really be ineffable and mystery, how we do experience and bring to Life, the gifts, and potential, to cultivate ,nurture and grow our shared good intentions and common ground to serve life in the many diverse ways we are being called? Is not healing, reconciling, providing care with and for others, engaging in movements of justice and peace, …… ways of cooperating and collaborating , a confluence of wills in attunement and alignment with Grace? Are these not our ways of realizing, recognizing, actualizing our shared personal , collective, communal , potential for more wisdom, love, compassion, and peace in our world? These are the questions and inquiries that I am carrying on and committed to exploring the answers. And I know that I am not being and doing this alone.
Grace” is a meaningful word for me and many others in affirming our trust, faith and Love of Life. Grace has expansive and simplistic meaning that is both experienced in the word Grace and beyond. The relationship with Grace is experienced in both word form and silence. I am not inclined to reduce or summarize Grace to fit into a paradigm for any website. This would not be true to my living faith and trust in the mystery of Grace. “ For whom does the grail really serve?