Grace doesn't always come in ways we would expect.
When we experience an act of kindness from someone
right at the moment we're in need of it, we know it's grace.
But there is also the kind of grace that comes from being broken open.
This can mean illness, loss, divorce... Sometimes we aren't willing to change
until we've been brought to our knees. When grace is fierce,
it smashes through our denial. Before grace, we were captive to fear,
masking it with behaviors such as pridefulness, rigidness...
After grace, we soften. We become more open-hearted and relinquish
self-defeating behaviors...
