It seemed like a good idea. I decided to do a mandala about Grace several months ago. I took a few notes and did a few doodles, and then put it aside. My thoughts about grace were all over the place, but that only made me realize how much I needed to work on it.
This quote from Anne Lamott kind of sums it up, “I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.”
It is such a tricky and elusive word. And working with it began to reflect my longing to pin things down, to understand the whys and hows and whats of my own life. I want physical grace as well as grace on a spiritual level. I want that ever popular state of grace. I want it to permeate my thoughts and actions on all levels. I want to live with grace and age with grace.
Yet my personal journey while working on it was not particularly easy, almost as if I were being shown how much work there is to do. I’m not exactly sure what I learned, but I know that it made me think and look and feel a lot.
And that’s enough for now.
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