I think it's important to remember that basically every human being is entitled to grace.
We just need to ask for it,
To ask for grace.
You can't demand it and say,
Okay,
I want this immediately because it won't happen with that kind of tight,
Demanding energy,
But if you just kind of let go,
Ask for help,
Ask for grace,
The Creator's grace,
What will happen is it will come in.
It sort of comes in the back door in a way.
It will come in and you'll see,
It'll surprise you.
It'll be like,
Oh,
It worked.
So I'll give you an example of grace.
I remember years ago,
My dad had picked up some kind of illness from a plane trip and the doctors in the hospital didn't know what it was,
But he'd come down with it right after a business trip.
But there happened to be a specialist in African diseases who was walking by and stopped in and was talking to the doctors and indeed,
He recognized the symptoms and my dad had picked up a bug or bacteria from Africa.
So,
You know,
Luckily this occurred because otherwise he could have been sick for a long time.
That's grace.
Yeah.
Grace is like the experience of,
You know,
You go,
You're cutting some fabric to make something and then you realize that you've cut the fabric too small and the whole,
You've just wasted your time.
And you,
You know,
You're just feeling despair and you just go off and get busy doing something else and maybe ask for grace,
Ask for,
You know,
Just kind of giving it over,
Giving over and not,
Not beating yourself up madly,
Just going,
Oh,
This is so too bad.
Give it over,
Ask you for grace and then returning to discover that the,
The fabric hasn't been cut too small at all.
That it's just the right size.
Yeah,
That's like grace.
It's just sort of a surprising,
Spacious event,
A surprising event that gives more space to the problem,
That gives enough kind of extra room that the problem gets solved.
It's just like the specialist walking down the corridor in the hospital.
I mean,
There's so many examples of this,
Of just the grace.
I remember,
You know,
The worst time of my life with my son,
With a diagnosis of terminal leukemia,
The doctor's giving no hope.
I experienced grace in that somebody gave me the name of Olga Worrell,
Who particularly worked with sick children.
And so I phoned her and she,
Not only,
I mean,
I was so distraught,
I would have given this woman my house,
Really,
I would have paid thousands for help,
But she didn't charge anything.
I mean,
That's grace again.
And she started working with my son from a distance and he healed.
That's grace.
So actually,
The thing is,
We're the ones who have to get used to this.
Get used to grace and open to it and let it come in.
Yeah,
And,
You know,
As you experience grace a few times,
What happens is you just become a nicer person.
You just do.
And so then you become an even greater candidate for grace because it will come,
You know,
It comes to,
Especially to people who are,
You know,
Have love in their hearts.
Yeah.
So,
You know,
Work on being a good candidate to receive grace.
I mean,
Ask for it.
Don't look too hard for it.
It's like,
Ask for it and then just let everything be.
And offer grace to the people,
You know,
And to your family,
People you work with.
Yeah,
And may it come to you more and more.
Okay.
Bless your hearts.
