Brilliant arc, Bo. Virgin Monk Boy approves. Grace as tribal loyalty is the toddler phase. Grace as forgiveness is adolescent. Grace as social justice is young adulthood. Grace as the very weave of the universe? Now you’re dancing with the grown-ups.
When you get to you are Grace itself, there’s no more winning arguments or earning merit. Just the humbling and terrifying freedom of embodying the whole damn mystery in every breath. And that’s where the real mischief begins.
My first thoughts today are to the gatekeepers: the people who need to be the barrier that they think grace needs. God's grace is so large, and we can be tempted to simplify it into a set of rules or practices or titles or concepts that can be "kept". Returning grace to its rightful radical place is what's really amazing! Thank you for sharing your grace today!
Well said. I especially appreciate the way you demonstrate how grace keeps moving us outward toward greater inclusion, love of all neighbors and even enemies... rather than the insider only view that I grew up with.
I once heard that the most radical, scandalous and offensive thing about grace is not who it excludes, but who it includes.
I have followed a very similar path and landed it seems in the same place you have on this.
Brilliant arc, Bo. Virgin Monk Boy approves. Grace as tribal loyalty is the toddler phase. Grace as forgiveness is adolescent. Grace as social justice is young adulthood. Grace as the very weave of the universe? Now you’re dancing with the grown-ups.
When you get to you are Grace itself, there’s no more winning arguments or earning merit. Just the humbling and terrifying freedom of embodying the whole damn mystery in every breath. And that’s where the real mischief begins.
Keep going. The chalice never empties.
— Virgin Monk Boy
Thank you. The chalice never empties indeed.
My first thoughts today are to the gatekeepers: the people who need to be the barrier that they think grace needs. God's grace is so large, and we can be tempted to simplify it into a set of rules or practices or titles or concepts that can be "kept". Returning grace to its rightful radical place is what's really amazing! Thank you for sharing your grace today!
And thank you for sharing your grace as well. :-)
Well said. I especially appreciate the way you demonstrate how grace keeps moving us outward toward greater inclusion, love of all neighbors and even enemies... rather than the insider only view that I grew up with.
I once heard that the most radical, scandalous and offensive thing about grace is not who it excludes, but who it includes.
I have followed a very similar path and landed it seems in the same place you have on this.
Thank you. Grace is absolutely scandalous! Great observation.
Grace: Unmerited favour, is one description that resonates with me
Thank you for sharing. That's a good one.