It's all a gift

Read a daily meditation this morning from the Center for Action and Meditation that had as its central message a reminder that we do nothing to deserve grace, that everything, even the hairs on our heads are given to us, but coming to this understanding, and certainly being open to recieving this grace is one of the most difficult tasks set before Christians. Amen, I say to this. How much of our energy (okay, my energy) is spent trying to be worthy when, all along, I have already been? How appropriate the timing of this meditative gift during this week of thanks! A truly transformative way of viewing our abundance--not something given to us lightly, so therefore, not something that we should steward lightly either. But with this realization comes not the usual pressure, but instead a heart that feels grateful and untethered in its duty. A gift within a gift--I'm learning that it ALL is.