I shared some thoughts with my friend Adam Fischer, and realized they’d fit in with TCG.
U2 has a song called “Grace” from their album, All That You Can’t Leave Behind. I was not an instant fan; rather, the song grew on me over time, and now I often sing it to my girls at bedtime.
A line goes, “She travels outside of karma.” I’ve long loved this one, referring to grace, and thought it a lovely expression for what I believe grace to be. Grace operates outside of blind justice, and has no interest in giving us, strictly, what we deserve. Rather, it represents a flow of blessings, the workings of the highest mind, which is subject to nothing while offering goodness to all.
Just today, another line offered unexpected depth. ”What once was hurt, what once was fiction, what left a mark no longer stains.”
The first and last descriptions have always made some sense. All three, in fact. Yet the middle one suddenly meant more.
Hopefully this thought is not based on a flawed understanding – from what I have read, there are a number of myths involving a god coming to live among humans, the son . . . → Read More: “What once was fiction”
