This Week’s Quotation:
I am inviting you to this: If God’s grace has changed your life, recall the difference that it made for you. And live this day and everyday of your life, from this day forward, with that passion. Give what you were given, with the same gratitude and the same joy with which you received it, to every person you meet. Make it available, without imposition. Act on that passion every day of your life, and embody it in your presence in the simplest of your interactions with other people.
Becoming a Sun p. 307
Living From What You’ve Received
These words, in relationship to all that is happening within me and within our world, have stirred something deep in me. A remembering. A call to live from the gift, not just with it.
We’ve all had moments, perhaps quiet, perhaps radical, where grace was present and turned the light on. It softened something hard, healed something broken, or called something inspiring to life.
But how easy it is to forget, to stuff grace away like a souvenir from a life-changing journey rather than letting it become the compass for our everyday lives.
I’m inviting you, as I invite myself: Remember the difference grace made. Let it light you up again. Let that joy and gratitude flow—not in grand gestures, but in how we listen, how we greet, how we pause.
Give what you were given, with the same gratitude and the same joy with which you received it, to every person you meet.
No pressure to be perfect. Just the willingness to let the grace you received become the presence you offer.
When we act from that place, even the simplest moments become sacred. The smallest kindness becomes a ripple of something sacred.
Let’s make grace available—not as an agenda, but as a way of Being. Let’s live from what we’ve received. Then let’s be steady in the shifts that organically happen, beyond our wildest dreams.
What does it mean to become a sun?
Every human being is already a sun on the inside—a being of intense love and light. The difference is that some people have the vision and courage to become a sun on the outside. This difference is our human destiny.
16 Responses
Keahi wrote “Let’s make Grace available – not as an agenda but as a way of being”. So well put. let’s do it. Aloha from Oahu, Tom C.
Thank you for your response, Tom.
I guess I’m quite fortunate because I really feel I’m in a state of grace and a flow of Love ALL of the time. It’s kind of a magical dance of life and anyone who comes into my presence is invited into that dance. Good to share this magical dance of grace with you, Keahi.
Lovely to share this magical dance, Jerry!
How does a person 83 years old travel the highway of Life back to home? Simple. Stay the course where you now are giving Thanks, gratitude for Being right where you are on this Highway of Life. There is calmness, peace, attunement I’m radiating out to others darting in, out on this highway of Life. Blessings to All that travel this highway of Love giving Thanks always, no matter what.
I appreciate the analogy of the highway of life, Wally, thankful in all things.
I love the word ‘grace’. It conveys so much, in particular about the nature of our loving Lord and His attitude towards us, and toward me in particular because, for me, as I suspect for many, receiving that grace has required that I let go t of self-judgement and accept that I actually am worthy of it.
So living in His grace involves some practice because old habits of attitude surface. The key for me though, is in seeing everything I do, from the smallest detail of daily tasks, to meeting challenges, difficulties, complex surprises, to being with other people socially or in business (which can be tricky) as an opportunity to let His grace flow through me, becoming as it does, my grace. As I say, a matter of practice, but how this lifts and lightens everything. How wonderful is this feeling, this sense of knowing that this attitude brings me and all i touch closer to Him.
Opportunity abounds! Great to be the flow with you, Peter.
What a beautiful and powerful message that needs to be spread far and wide!
I have personally been blessed–and in a few instances I believe my life has been saved–by this connection.
Thank you for the powerful reminder. May “How I Live My Life” always be uppermost in my consciousness.
Blessings…..
Shareen, I appreciate your comment “…I believe my life has been saved by this connection” as I can relate.
Extending grace involves being patient, understanding, and forgiving, even when it is difficult. It is not about being perfect but about having a willingness to let the grace we have received become the presence we offer to those around us.
Thank you, Keahi for your grace and healing in the time I spent with you.
Forever grateful
Misty
Thankful for your response and I look forward to more time with you.
Thank-you Keahi! Beautifuly written.Letting go to the magnificence that my life is, so much is available in the presence of grace, since the first moment of realization of it’s presence inside me. I have tripped and fallen a few times in the process but my life has a purpose to take responsibility for where it has not been before to share my love at deeper & deeper levels of discovery & understanding of myself and others. Abiding in this place everything is wondrous and fresh. There is no where else that i would rather be than sharing being together with others and discovering it everywhere in my life and in others lives!
Thank you, Bruce. Onward and upward on this marvelous adventure!
So beautifully expressed. Sending lots of love, grace and blessings to all within the light.
Feeling you and all you provide this world, in gratitude.