Amazing Grace

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.
Frederick Buechner

Grace under Pressure.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

There but for the grace of God goes God.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness."
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Dramatist, novelist & poet

Amazing Grace

Breathe with me,
Breathe it in,
Breathe it deeply,
Remember that smell,
Remember the Magadascar,
Remember that God made men equal!

No matter how loud you shout,
You will not drown the voice of the people
And who knows the number
of Actors and Actresses
And Singers and Divas
And Artists you are trying to get rid off,
As it is a natural movement
That has drawn the attention of hundreds of millions
All driven by the Amazing Grace!

As my name has been tried,
And I've been tempted so that I am not appointed,
So that I am not crowned as a true giant,
As a true force among the living.

I once was blind but now I see!
There's nothing wrong,
with trying to make a better world.