Grace is Everywhere but Always Free and Never Automatic

The article at 30 Days, If Everything is Grace, There No Longer is Grace, comes off a bit cranky, but I love it anyway. The crucial line: "But no sociological condition can replace the attraction of grace, which calls to itself the personal freedom of everyone. Personal commitment is required for the life of faith."

Grace is in everything, everything points us toward destiny - but only if we freely respond (that is, if we allow our freedom to be rejuvenated). I realized that the truism God is everywhere can be a bit abstract. Instead, God generates everything, sustains everything, calls us to our destiny through everything.

Even a banal meeting can be the occasion for grace so long as grace is not presumed, not taken for granted, but if the participants discover their miserable boredom as an invitation to beg for the Presence who is never boring.