Read the “New Rules” for living the best years of your life with guts, grit, and grace. Grace reminds me that I am not the only one who struggles. Grace reminds me of how I want to be treated. Cain would be accepted or rejected on his. When I have Grace I don’t use anger against myself. One has Gods favor, acceptance (hence, grace since grace also means acceptable - see above) the other does not. That’s a tough one, at times, I’ll admit.

If we receive His grace, it’s God’s unmerited. In Christian terms, grace can be defined as Gods favor toward the unworthy or Gods benevolence on the undeserving. We can’t do enough righteous deeds to erase even one sin. When I have Grace I don’t use anger against those who are quick to judge, denigrate, hate, and shame. The meaning of Amazing Grace or its underlying principle is that no matter how we have sinned, we can’t fix it ourselves. Grace is free in the sense that something done or given in grace is done so without expecting to. Having Grace means we are willing to consider, thoughtfully and kindly, another person’s point of view, no matter how different it may be from my own, and not fault that person for it.

Grace is the understanding that we are not separate at all that each of us is inextricably tied to one another. The ego is what tries to make us believe we are separate from others. And if we don’t understand what they mean, we cannot be inspired or fueled by them. Words like these require our own interpretation or we can go through life never really understanding what they mean.

What does it mean to give grace