Grace

Black Forest, Germany  Image credits: andy linden

Grace is ...

… Courage under fire

… Resilience when hope has faded

… Knowing you were meant to be here

… Moving purposefully through this life

… Blessings in any form

… At ease in the flow

Stop.

I do not understand grace.

I do not know if I have truly experienced it.

I write these words as if I know what grace is,

As if it has graced my life.

Perhaps it has and I haven't recognised it.

I'm sure I've had blessings in many forms.

I know I've been at ease in the flow.

I suspect I have both courage under fire

and resilience when hope has faded,

otherwise I would have succumbed to that

“Life is not worth living” voice

a long, long time ago.

I do not know the face of grace,

But I know there is 

but one letter's difference

between grace and grave.

C for courage.

V for vanquished.

Perhaps I do know grace after all.