Healing and Grace  

Healing, like grace, can be somewhat disorienting in its early stages. It is a breaking through the old to reveal the ever new. Healing, like grace, always takes us toward our true nature. Indeed, healing is not somewhere we are going, but a discovery of where we already are– a participant in the process unfolding moment to moment.

Many of us pray for a miracle when all else has failed. We wish for grace to descend upon us. But grace comes from within. Grace arises when the work of healing is in process. A graceful healing that goes into the spirit that goes beyond the need of definition or even the words “grace” or “karma” or “spirit”.

Though many of the people we have worked with did not begin with a spiritual inclination, many uncovered their healing by taking on what some would call spiritual practices toward the discovery of a deeper self. But we did notice that even those who shied away from what they called “spiritual stuff” in the course of their daily routine with the impermanence of the body, cultivated a certain quality of heartfulness and peacefulness.

Stephen Levine

Healing into Life and Death Cited in Meditation for The New Age

“Once you consciously choose to walk a more spiritual path, the experience of that shift will be closely aligned to the inner decision to welcome dynamic and multi-level facets of personal change and challenge. 

You will become aware that to invite/accept those possibilities for visceral and ethical transformation, that you will undergo a process of self discovery; and can eventually reveal a more constant sense of the Divine being with you and within you.

The qualities of grace that attend to you during those periods of greater awareness and spiritual attunement can be seen as “angelic” or “gifts of the Holy Spirit” or simply inner confirmation that you are on the right path.”

From my experience, I have learned to cherish those moments of an “inbreaking” grace; not just because they can be fleeting and/or arrive unexpectedly, but that when one engages in the necessary battles of sense and soul, ego and essence, that we are in need of this confirmation and support for our souls. That assurance is welcomed as it provides for our next steps in life’s journey toward wholeness, healing, and peace.