Hi,
This is Lindsay Ambrose with Life Recipes.
The meditation today is on grace.
What is grace?
It's the greatest gift that we have as humans.
It's God's gift.
And what it means is that there's nothing we can do,
Nothing you can do,
To make God love you less.
And there's nothing you can do to make God love you more.
You are loved as you are.
With the mistakes you make,
The relationships that didn't go through,
The judgments you made,
The times that you didn't show up as your highest self,
God still loves you.
This is grace.
It's a gift to each of us.
There's nothing more you need to do.
Of course,
You and yourself feel better when you're tuned into that love,
That essence that's within you.
It's within all of us.
That's what we are.
Yet at some time early on,
Before we can even remember,
We separated from that love that's at our core.
It's God's love.
It's pure.
It's greater than we can even imagine or put human words to.
It can only be felt.
You felt it.
You see it every day.
If you look,
You open your eyes and you stay open.
Smile of a child,
A sunset,
Opening of a flower,
A beautiful act of kindness from a stranger.
You feel that love.
It's all around.
Yet there's a lot of reasons that we've closed from that love.
God doesn't judge us.
Nobody does.
But if you're judging yourself,
You're not going to be open to love.
You're going to be closed.
And that's no way to be.
Because when you're closed,
You can't see the grace that's all around you,
The grace that you've been given,
That gift that keeps giving.
Any mistake that's made can be undone by an act of love,
By asking for forgiveness.
You can do it for yourself.
You can forgive others.
You can choose love.
Because holding on to hurt,
Holding on to resentment,
Holding on to a worry of what could be,
That's not the way we're meant to use our imagination.
We're meant to use it to create more love,
To feel beauty and create beauty.
It's within all of us.
So let's take a moment to think about that and just bask in that grace that's there for you always.
Take a big deep breath in.
Feel that energy.
Focus on your heart center and know that there's love inside you.
You can always return to that love.
You can ask for grace.
It's already been given to you.
When you make the choice to forgive,
To accept,
To understand,
To love,
That is you taking that gift of grace that's been given to you and passing it on to someone else.
That's the greatest gift that we can give another,
Is showing up as our highest self,
As your highest self,
And just being a loving presence to another helps them tune back into the love within them and helps them feel grace,
Love,
Truth,
Peace,
Joy.
As you take another big deep breath in,
You may have thoughts that come and go.
If a thought comes and goes and doesn't feel good,
You know that that's not truth because truth and love feels good.
You can pray for grace.
When a thought's coming in,
When a feeling you're feeling,
You don't want that,
You can allow it to be,
Accept it,
And pray for grace.
Pray for that return to love because it was given to us as a gift,
Just as you are a gift.
No one else on this planet has the same experiences,
The same passions,
The same interests,
The same gifts as you.
You can show up as your highest self,
Your true self,
Because that is love and that's what's needed.
When you make a mistake,
You can feel God's grace surrounding you,
Allowing you to feel that safe,
Warm blanket of goodness,
Of love,
Knowing that you're here to grow.
You're here to make mistakes because that's how we become who we're meant to be.
That's how we can help others and that's how we show up differently.
So remember always,
You are love,
You are peace,
Grace is yours,
So you can keep returning to love and knowing that you are here for a reason and you showing up as a loving presence is all you need to do.
The rest will sort itself out.
Just keep being open,
Keep choosing love,
And keep accepting that grace as it comes in.
