Fall of Grace
by Chaplain Tilia Giron, RScP, PhD.
THIS TREATMENT IS FOR GRACE.
Not just any grace or all grace.
But, in particular, for the grace to stay with a desire, an intention.
The grace to forbear, to stand with that intention in the midst of cymbals clashing ’round.
The grace to stand amidst snakes crawling about and fear mounting.
Yes, grace to stand in the uck and muck of it all.
Grace to know the truth.
Grace to follow the truth, my truth.
Grace to see that which appears darkly.
Grace to follow through the mists.
Grace to pick myself, ourselves, up when I/we fall down, are down.
And grace to dust off the dust even when it was/is I doing the dusting.
Oh, grace, be mine.
Grace – because it is grace that sees us through.
Grace which offers that helping hand
Grace and determination which assists in rising back up again after we fall.
Grace after the fall, in the fall, from the fall.
And with that rise comes even more grace.
For grace knows the strength, the will, the power of the will to choose to move yet again through the unseeable because of a decision.
It not only knows the strength and the will, it possesses it.
It contains it inherent in its nature.
So what if we are human?
So what if we fall?
Is that not part of the path?
Part of the human persona?
Are we not made stronger through our perceived misperceptions and faltering steps?
Yes, though the crow flies overhead above the granite cross,
I not only accept that cross, that fall, I bless it.
For I know that in the fall comes a greater awareness, a greater seeing, a deeper insight,
a more resolved intention and a more pure pristine and clear view of the pathway.
So, just what happens when we fall on this pathway?
We see our supposed fall.
We see what’s transpired.
Moreover, we are given in grace ways to even more constructively work the issue, narrow the parameters of the situation or condition and
So it is, that we, then, approximate it even more.
We, in fact, move even closer to our goal.
We, believe it or not, progress.
So, do not take what appears at first value, lesson one. What appears as a fall can actually be progress.
Lesson two, be not so quick to judge oneself.
And more, Know that in every kernel of isness or appearingness is goodness.
For God is all good and nothing but good! I but to see this good and this incredible love.
So, it is that I call this move, this seemingly fall, but grace, itself!!
And I bless it.
And I call it good.
I know it to be embellished emblazoned embedded with my good, All Good, Divine Good.
And I claim this good as my own/our own.
I claim this knowingness.
I claim this truth and I am so grateful for it.
I call this grace mine, sweet and blessed.
And so it is!