ON RECEIVING THE GRACE OF GOD

In growing psychologically, one moves toward increasing autonomy and independence. In growing spiritually, one increasingly realizes how utterly dependent one is, on God and on the grace of God that comes through other people. —Gerald May 

There it is...my eye-opening truth: How increasingly and utterly dependent I am on the grace of God that comes through other people. That deeper truth comes when the blinders fall from our eyes. 

We begin to see that mostly the "other people" from whom God's grace comes are those we have never had a desire to really know...some we've seen as "jerks," others as just "wrong." When we see it is not that they are wrong, we can accept it is our view of them that is not right...is not of God, plain and simple. 

My daily reader, God Calling, comes to my aid yet again. Here's today's reading in its entirety: Go forward fearlessly...Do not think about the Red Sea that lies ahead....Be very sure that when you come to it, the waters will part and you will pass over to your promised land of freedom. 

Every June 22 when I read that, I want to hang a copy of it on my bathroom mirror...but by June 23 I've forgotten...or maybe I've moved on...that sounds better. There...that is growing psychologically with not a lick of spiritual growth in it. It is to love and laugh.

Thank you.