Thoughts of Grace in All Things
The Sandhill Crane is the picture of beauty and gracefulness in the way it walks, drinks, eats and especially in flight. They are never in a hurry. They move slowly, effortlessly through this existance with grace.
I was introduced to this amazing bird by a brilliant being named Harry Johnson, avid bird watcher, graduate of MIT and professor at a college in California. Harry has now transitioned to spirit and I was honored to know him. He was originally from Lake Wales, FL and we would go to the mall there to watch birds and look for alligators around the perimeter of the area. He we regale me with facts about sandhill cranes, alligators, and how this area was once swamp land with hundreds of birds nesting in the edges of tall grass. The memory of this brings a smile to my face because it was an experience full of grace.
Grace has multiple definitions, simple elegance, courteous goodwill, to do honor or credit to something or someone by ones presence. God’s Grace is likes grits on a southern breakfast plate, it just comes, you know part of the deal. I am sitting here watching the sandhill cranes walking along the edge of a lake and the wind is gently blowing warm air. I can smell rain in the air. That presence of grace is with us in the beauty of nature, the wind, amazing beings ebbing and flowing through our space and time, children, friends, and most of all God experiencing Itself as us. Yes, we are all pieces of God experiencing itself, gracing (honoring) us with its presence in breath, love and independence to choose. Grace is also in the pandemic, the seemingly unfortunate events of people transitioning at the hands of another, because these things occured to bring about change we have been seeking as a whole and allows us an opportunity to come out the other side filled with grace. Strange this was the path of least resistance. What if we make a choice to receive the grace with simple elegence, allow it to flow through us as courteous goodwill, with honor in All Things regarding the good and the seemingly “bad” as grace?