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Welcome, friends, to the
Creative Spiritual Journey
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meditation, Receiving Grace.
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I'm going to begin with a question
before we settle into our meditation.
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What if your weakness is actually a gift?
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A gift to bring you closer to the
Savior to seek His grace, for He has
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promised His grace is sufficient.
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And as we humble ourselves, He will
make our weak things become strong.
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So let's settle into a space where
we won't be interrupted, and we can
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let go of things of this world, the
noise, and just settle into breath.
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Be peaceful and calm.
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God has told us, "Peace,
be still," and know Him.
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Let's begin with thinking about
how simple this gift of grace is.
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Sometimes we miss it.
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We don't believe it.
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It is so simple.
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Think of how an infant doesn't
care what it is seeing.
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It's simply amazed that it is seeing
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What do you sense in your life?
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The beauty around you, the people, your
reverence for God, and all the beautiful
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and amazing creations that surround you.
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Your body
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heart.
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So I want you to ponder and think as
you breathe in deep in through the nose
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and down into the belly, resting into
your body and recognize the simpleness
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of grace
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How do you sense?
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God in your life in those
small and simple things
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The redness of a Indian paintbrush
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The color of a sunset, golden clouds
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The taste of a fresh picked peach
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Touching hands of a baby
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Reading a verse that
speaks so deep to your soul
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Seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, reading
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His grace
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Is His grace so close
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That we don't recognize it
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The eye with which I see is the
same eye with which God sees me.
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My eye and God's eye are one eye.
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One seeing, one knowing, one love
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is His love and His grace so
close we're not recognizing it?
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we're out searching, searching for the
bigger, grander things when this grace
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and this love was within your arm's reach?
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Is His grace so profound, so
deep that we can't conceive it?
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The Lord says, "My thoughts are not
your thoughts, nor my ways your ways."
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There's a great gift in allowing
ourselves to rest in the not knowing,
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the not comprehending, and just trusting.
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It's part of the being humble
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This grace is like waves to the ocean
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This grace is part of our soul
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Can you float in that for a moment, this
deepness, and allow yourself to be held?
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Is his grace so noble, so grand that
we believe we do not deserve it?
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This love is infinite, and His
grace is a gift just for you
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His child, his beloved.
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So receive it with gratitude,
for our heart yearns for it.
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Be humble.
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Be the open vessel to receive humbly,
gratefully, this beautiful gift
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For it is God's good pleasure to
give you His kingdom, His love
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This is where we're going to take our
weakness and put it into some form
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that you can imagine you're holding
it in your hands and bringing it
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to the altar humbly to the Savior.
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And offer it up to Him with gratitude for
the wisdom, the strength that you have
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gained in overcoming this weakness and
receiving this beautiful gift to be able
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to create a better life, with purpose
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This grace is so simple and close
and deep and profound and noble.
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A grace that is sufficient enough
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Personalized for you
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Do you sense it?
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The lightness
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The joy, the love, the peace, maybe
even rest that fills your soul
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As you open that heart and receive grace
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Choose to believe it
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I will seek to recognize it
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let it be okay to not comprehend it.
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It is so deep, but we can
just float and soak in it
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And I can believe
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That I deserve it
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The love, the compassion, the embrace
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Just rest here for a moment
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I invite you after this meditation
to take the pen to the paper
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How do you feel His grace?
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And how has this weakness become a gift
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Namaste, my friend.
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I'll see you on the trail.
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Bye
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deep and profound and noble.
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That we stand in awe that it is for us
