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What is the nature of divine grace?
THE UNEARNED GIFT
Grace waits on the other side
between what I am
and what I long to become.
Grace waits with an invitation:
to be forgiven when I falter,
to be made whole when I’m broken,
to be held in compassion.
Grace is unexpected mercy.
It is not earned by being perfect.
It is given because I am not.
Grace is the hand
that reaches across the gap
that lifts me
when I cannot lift myself.