Receiving Grace Meditation

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Welcome, friends, to the

Creative Spiritual Journey

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meditation, Receiving Grace.

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I'm going to begin with a question

before we settle into our meditation.

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What if your weakness is actually a gift?

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A gift to bring you closer to the

Savior to seek His grace, for He has

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promised His grace is sufficient.

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And as we humble ourselves, He will

make our weak things become strong.

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So let's settle into a space where

we won't be interrupted, and we can

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let go of things of this world, the

noise, and just settle into breath.

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Be peaceful and calm.

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God has told us, "Peace,

be still," and know Him.

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Let's begin with thinking about

how simple this gift of grace is.

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Sometimes we miss it.

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We don't believe it.

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It is so simple.

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Think of how an infant doesn't

care what it is seeing.

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It's simply amazed that it is seeing

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What do you sense in your life?

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The beauty around you, the people, your

reverence for God, and all the beautiful

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and amazing creations that surround you.

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Your body

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heart.

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So I want you to ponder and think as

you breathe in deep in through the nose

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and down into the belly, resting into

your body and recognize the simpleness

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of grace

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How do you sense?

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God in your life in those

small and simple things

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The redness of a Indian paintbrush

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The color of a sunset, golden clouds

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The taste of a fresh picked peach

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Touching hands of a baby

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Reading a verse that

speaks so deep to your soul

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Seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, reading

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His grace

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Is His grace so close

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That we don't recognize it

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The eye with which I see is the

same eye with which God sees me.

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My eye and God's eye are one eye.

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One seeing, one knowing, one love

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is His love and His grace so

close we're not recognizing it?

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we're out searching, searching for the

bigger, grander things when this grace

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and this love was within your arm's reach?

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Is His grace so profound, so

deep that we can't conceive it?

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The Lord says, "My thoughts are not

your thoughts, nor my ways your ways."

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There's a great gift in allowing

ourselves to rest in the not knowing,

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the not comprehending, and just trusting.

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It's part of the being humble

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This grace is like waves to the ocean

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This grace is part of our soul

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Can you float in that for a moment, this

deepness, and allow yourself to be held?

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Is his grace so noble, so grand that

we believe we do not deserve it?

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This love is infinite, and His

grace is a gift just for you

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His child, his beloved.

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So receive it with gratitude,

for our heart yearns for it.

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Be humble.

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Be the open vessel to receive humbly,

gratefully, this beautiful gift

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For it is God's good pleasure to

give you His kingdom, His love

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This is where we're going to take our

weakness and put it into some form

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that you can imagine you're holding

it in your hands and bringing it

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to the altar humbly to the Savior.

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And offer it up to Him with gratitude for

the wisdom, the strength that you have

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gained in overcoming this weakness and

receiving this beautiful gift to be able

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to create a better life, with purpose

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This grace is so simple and close

and deep and profound and noble.

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A grace that is sufficient enough

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Personalized for you

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Do you sense it?

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The lightness

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The joy, the love, the peace, maybe

even rest that fills your soul

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As you open that heart and receive grace

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Choose to believe it

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I will seek to recognize it

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let it be okay to not comprehend it.

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It is so deep, but we can

just float and soak in it

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And I can believe

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That I deserve it

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The love, the compassion, the embrace

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Just rest here for a moment

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I invite you after this meditation

to take the pen to the paper

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How do you feel His grace?

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And how has this weakness become a gift

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Namaste, my friend.

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I'll see you on the trail.

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Bye

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deep and profound and noble.

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That we stand in awe that it is for us