Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. ~Simone Weil
Grace
has been riding
shotgun
for
as long as I can
remember
first she appeared
in the department store
my grandmother ran her cart
into a pyramid of glass mouthwash bottles
just a wee little thing
the family still recalls my comment
Well Grace, you did it again!
where’d that come from?
years later
alone in living room
green and white duplex
back against heat register
70s Tupperware colored afghan
created a tent
to hold heat in
Burns and Allen
black and white
on repeat
Say goodnight, Gracie.
Goodnight.
Grace
watches and waits
for her opportunity
to enter
with a calm
heart and mind
become
a channel of Grace
Our job is to create the void, to dig the well, to create emptiness so that the light of the world can pour in and through us. ~ Rolf Gates
The gifts of grace seem to come in unexpected ways. Expectation is a thief that robs grace away. Grace cannot come with expectation for it has already dimmed the lights of the soul. Grace comes to transform a piece of us and calls upon gratitude to hold Joy's hand. Grace is the present (pun intended) that we never dreamed of. <3
Goodnight Gracie! I still say it every evening.