“Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound.”  Such a beautiful song! But the word grace, itself, also has many wonderful synonyms and they overwhelm me.  There are 3 definitions of the word as a noun and 1 definition as a verb. 

The first definition of the noun is “an act of kind assistance.”  The second is “dignified or restrained beauty of form, appearance or style.”  And the third definition is “ a quality that gives something special worth.”  As a verb, it means  ‘to make something more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming.”

It’s the nouns that attract me because they are specific attributes of grace.  Kindness, beauty and worth are all lovely attributes to incorporate into our daily lives.  And we can do this quite easily if we just count our blessings and share them with others.  By doing this, we can become full of grace because to give grace is to receive it as well.

As the song lyrics express, grace saves us.  Grace finds us and helps us to acknowledge it, thereby helping us to see the truth in our lives.  Isn’t that amazing?  What a wonderful opportunity to put grace into the lives of others and ourselves!  For if this were not possible, hope would be so greatly diminished.  

Grace is something that becomes a verb when we take its attributes and share them with others.  In this way we can spread this goodness into our world.  When we learn to see the grace in our daily lives, we become more grateful.  Being grateful is not just good for oneself, but for those around us.  Grace then becomes a fabulous gift to our world.  For indeed, it is just that, a gift, to be given again and again.  Amen to that!  And may it be so!