What is the Nature of Grace?

So, What is Grace really? Is grace the relative unfolding that happens to meet your conventional self's preferences and desires? Is Grace that streak where "things go your way?" 

While this might stand as a conventional understanding, this isn't the true nature of Grace, this isn't what it actually is.

Grace actually doesn't hold a preference. Grace holds no desire. Grace isn't concerned with becoming this or that, nor is Grace fundamentally invested in any other creation of time and its unfolding.

So then, What is grace actually? 

Is it not this right here? Is it not my fingers typing on my mac? Is it not these very words crossing your eyes? Is it not the breath that drops effortlessly into my belly? Is it not your own breath rising or falling right now? 

Grace is this. 

Grace is Being. Grace is why anything is here at all. Grace is why something is, rather than nothing. 

While there are times when things go your way, sometimes things unfold effortlessly from your conventional self's view. This is Grace no doubt; however, it isn't Grace because of the particular direction or way the Now happens to be unfolding. 

Grace is this unfolding. 

Grace is just as much as your pain, your struggle, your suffering. Grace is when the moment unfolds and makes your relative life more difficult. Grace is the misfortune, the broken heart, the loss, the death. Grace shows no preference, it's simply Being. 

If you find yourself believing that Grace is absent, that's Grace. If you find yourself falling into an exclusive identification with doing, this is Grace. Distraction, Grace once again. Looking for Being? This is Grace. 

So what needs to happen? What needs to happen for you to experience Grace? What do you need to do to connect once again to Grace? 

These questions are precisely Grace through and through. Any question, any inquiry cannot point to Grace as the inquiry is Grace itself.  

If you'd like a question that can frustrate you enough to realize Grace, turn your misdirectedness upon yourself. Ask yourself, What experiences this? The simple feeling of being that precedes all of this and that. This is grace in it's true nature.  

You can't have it. You can't hold it. You can't control it. You can't do anything to Grace. Grace transcends all of this, and Grace is what you are through and through. Your conventional self has no choice in the matter. Grace has already chosen this, You - not the small 'you' but something much startlingly obvious has already chosen this. 

Welcome to Graceland, you've never left. 

~R