Grace @ Living in Courage by Anne Lamott

I do not understand the mystery of grace–only that it meets us where we are, but does not leave us where it found us.

-Anne Lamott

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Courage & Grace

You wake up in the morning, feeling great and ready to take on the world.  Your are positive that your day will be wonderful and then ka-boom, you get pulled out of the happy place and into feelings that make you not so happy. We need to stop ourselves from getting pulled out and going into the human reactor mode. To be a human reactor is constantly reacting to a world of effects that seem to make us smaller and take us out of our power.  We are not here to react, we are here to create, to generate, to build. Not to react and not to take from this world.  In this way we will change the way the world has lived for thousands of years.

What supports us?  Grace & Courage. If you live from the outside in, you are constantly reacting to the stimuli outside that makes you less.  Living from the inside out will make you more, a power to reckon with, making change to build, to create the life you dream of. Spiritual or positive self talk (give it whatever name you want), helps you to build your inner center into a powerful place that you can live your life out of.  

Let’s talk about grace, which gives us the courage to take one mighty step after another.  Welcome grace into your life and all your experiences.  Wear it, be it, smell it, taste it, see it, live it. Grace will reveal love to you and lift you above the turmoil of the world and all that seems difficult.  Have you ever really thought about this word.  Now might be a good time.  Grace opens the way to wisdom and illumination to guide you in your choices and decisions. We have Will (a force, a power) inside each of us that drives every quality, giving us passion, which unfolds into our creative expression.  Grace can take everything that opposes the joy of life and transform it.

What is your relationship with your home, environment, creativity, work and employment, friends, and family? How does grace act when you don’t limit it?  I suggest you try living in courage and grace.  This experiment and experience my surprise you.  Where do you live the center of your life from?  This is a big question.   When we take ourselves off of automatic pilot and start answering the bigger questions with honesty, then we become expanded, conscious, and powerful.  Live in Courage and choose Grace.

Debra Oakland @ Living in Courage Online

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