{"id":1779,"date":"2014-02-02T09:18:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T14:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2014-02-02T09:18:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T14:18:18","slug":"this-is-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/2014\/02\/02\/this-is-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"blistered<\/a><\/p>\n

In life, as in the dance, grace glides on blistered feet<\/em><\/strong>\u2026Alice Abrams<\/p>\n

I believe him, she said.\u00a0 He is speaking like someone with an experience. Like he is missing family and simply wants to come home.\u00a0 This is grace.\u00a0 From a mother who let her son go and live with his father all the while wrestling with the decision.\u00a0 This is grace. To let a son make mistakes while standing on the sidelines watching and holding back from preventing those mistakes knowing they would prove beneficial.\u00a0 This is grace.\u00a0 While praying for assurance that you\u2019ve done the right thing, never really knowing but trusting.\u00a0 This is grace.\u00a0 Welcoming him home to a family that loves him, having never let go of him and will now hold him responsible for the knowledge he\u2019s gained and the man he\u2019s become. Step by step.<\/p>\n

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She saved my life, she answered when they asked how you know her.\u00a0 This is grace.\u00a0 From a wife who had been left too soon by a husband that loved her dearly.\u00a0 This is grace. \u00a0From a neighbor who called, and sat, and brought two tiny angels with her to play around the sadness they never even noticed. This is grace.\u00a0\u00a0 Two women who were each struggling with their own inner distractions or pain that found each other at either end of a flight of stairs.\u00a0 This is grace.\u00a0 That two small children could enter and open up the hearts of these two women to move them forward toward each other and away from their pain. Step by step.<\/p>\n

~~<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t.\u00a0 She said of a woman she called friend for many years.\u00a0 This is grace. To recognize that it is not your fault that she has no friends.\u00a0 This is grace.\u00a0 To further recognize that you cannot be the only person in her life if all she does is show you her malice.\u00a0 This is grace.\u00a0 To know when to leave a friendship for your own sake because your peace of mind is important and that it might prove the only way for a friend to learn.\u00a0 Step by step.<\/p>\n

\"grace<\/a><\/p>\n

These are people who have walked beside you, never showing you their anguish.\u00a0 Step by step most people are gathering grace in everything they do, everything they accomplish, everything they suffer, everything they celebrate and everything that they have and will become.\u00a0 I am in awe of people of grace because they have no clue that they have anything more than blistered feet as Alice Abrams so eloquently put it.<\/p>\n

If any one thing could impact a person\u2019s legacy as strongly it would be grace.\u00a0 One\u2019s movement through the world, albeit at times on blistered feet, touching and impacting along the way.\u00a0 Being ever cognizant of the world around you, no matter how tiny that world might be, is valuable to countless others.\u00a0 I have been touched by the stories of these women this week and can\u2019t help thinking they can\u2019t begin to fathom how far they\u2019ve come.\u00a0 Nor can they fathom how many they\u2019ve touched in their grace. Brava my dears put your feet up for a while.\u00a0 We know, we\u2019ve seen, your struggle hasn\u2019t gone unnoticed by those around you\u2026or do what you always do. Carry on through your life in that way only you can to the ever increasing benefit of us all.<\/p>\n

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