About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
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Everyday Canvas #939325 added August 7, 2018 at 5:33pm Restrictions: None
Grace
Prompt: Mary Oliver says, “You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it. ”
What is grace to you?
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Grace is a friend of mine, in human form. Grace as a noun is refinement, elegance, and doing a favor to people by being in their presence. The last meaning has evolved through the millenniums and entered into theology. There is grace or divine grace in Christianity and its relative words in other religions and cultures.
Grace is the most important concept in all religions that I know of. It is the love and mercy the Supreme Being shows even to those who are not so lovable. Grace is a favor that is not earned or merited. Grace rescues us earthlings from our misunderstandings and brokenness. Grace is the divine help and strength given to us.
We cannot hand out grace like the Supreme Being does, but we can forgive and show mercy, and hopefully, come to love those who wrong us, and then live a righteous life. That can be our minute humanly grace. I believe when we forgive and love, we just may encourage the Supreme Being’s grace upon us, although our every breath is the result of that grace, anyway.
Then, no matter how I try to describe grace, I may not be able to do it fully, and since the point of origin of grace emerges from such a high place, I wholeheartedly agree with Mary Oliver’s words, “I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it. ”
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