Grace 1 - Stories ...

Monday, June 14, 2010. One day I was unpacking my lorry, in front of our shop. Suddenly, my feet slipped when I was standing in the back of the car and two big piles of boxed fell down … they were scattered all over the road. What a mess!

A young man had been passing by, just ten seconds earlier. I saw him stopping, he realized my little accident, then he turned around and started to collect the boxes. While I was still surprised and a little confused, he helped me to put all the boxed into our shop … it took him about ten minutes. He did not say much, … just worked efficiently. Thanks, I said, that was very helpful. De nada, he replied, its nothing. Have a nice day. Then he turned around and continued his walk along the road.

Just helping

Grace is about someone like the guy above - someone who is just there, just helping. Someone who does not need to do it. He does not want anything with it. He does not want to earn something. He is just helping, without a reason, just so.

There was this woman, who was smiling at him. Ken was working in the convenience store at the corner, packing the instant coffee into one of the shelves. He had been concentrated on his work for a while and probably had not seen her enter. He put the packages into the right order and looked over his shoulder, … she was still standing there and smiling at him. When he looked the next time, she had moved to the ice-cream box in the center of the store, got a large vanilla cube and came to the cashier to pay. Ken hurried through the store and scanned the bar-code.

That's four dollars ninety-five, he said. One second, she said, and smiled again … it flooded through Ken like a warm wind. Why in the world was she doing this, he did not know her, and she did not know him … he was not particularly handsome. A moment later she was gone. What a smile, Ken thought, I wish I would get one of these every day!

Think grace! Live grace!

Grace is about good things which are done to someone without a reason. It can be a smile, or a helping hand. There are things in this world which are done like this. Grace exists!

Can you think grace? Can you think in terms of grace? Can you live grace, accept grace, accept that there is grace? Someone helps you … he might just want to help, nothing more. Is that possible? It is possible! Grace exists …

We can think grace. We can live grace. That means: we can accept grace, just let someone help us. Let someone do good to us. And we can live grace, do good ourselves, help ourselves … grace is alive! ... more texts