Ike borrowed a book from me about contemporary artist Robert Irwin (more on him in another post) I got it back this evening and flipping through it came across my favorite definition of grace. Maybe it's not the grace I learned about in church, but I feel the truth of this statement has profound spiritual implications. Thought I would share...
Grace: you work and you work and you work at something that then happens of its own accord. It would not have happened without all that work, but the result cannot be accounted for as the product of the work in the sense that an effect is said to be the product of its causes. There is all that preparation- preparation for receptivity- and then there is something else beyond that which is gratis, for free.
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