What
is being asked of you at this time that feels demanding or challenging? Demands
and challenges that return again and again can be particularly frustrating.
Everyone knows what it feels like to go two steps forward and one step back.
And yet, these sticking places are the keys to transformation. For spiritual
advancement, each one requires surrender and acceptance. Each one is a stepping
stone, a jewel that is the fuel for the fire of transformation.
Surrender
and acceptance are stepping stones to the state of Grace. Wherever you have to
surrender, whatever you have to accept, is how you realize Grace.
We often think of Grace as something outside of ourselves that is mysteriously
bestowed upon us. We experience it as good luck, an effortless flow in life, or
an unexpected bounty. We feel good. But somehow there is a sense that it
happens to us, from the outside in.
Gracefulness,
being full of Grace, is the result of how internally adaptable and flexible we are,
which allows us to rise to any situation without resistance. In order to live
in a state of Grace, accept everything because Grace is born from the most
challenging and the most difficult places.
You have the power to choose the
consciousness that gives birth to the flow of Grace. By sustaining the inner
practices of surrender and acceptance, you will open the door of your heart. As
you open the door of your heart, you will find that Grace has been living
within you all along. Accept everything just as it is, and you will cultivate a
life full of Grace.
(January 2001)
Maresha's next blog will be published March 18, 2014.
Messages of Light is published by the Sanctuary of Universal Light on Snow Dragon Mountain in Meredith, New Hampshire. www.snowdragonsanctuary.com.