Duly Noted: Grace

grace |grās|

I just got done watching Oprah Friday’s Live and it was a really great show. The end of the show featured BeBe & CeCe Winans performing their new single, “Grace,” from their new album entitled “Still.” I was uber-moved.

The song asks, “what would I do without Your grace?” & “where would I be without Your grace.”

I sit here on my couch, replaying the performance again and again. Lately I’ve been on this whole kick about the formal definitions of words, and went online to look up what “grace” is formally defined as. There were many sub-definitions, but a few stood out to me, and one in particular arrested my attention. The seventh said:

“an allowance of time after a debt or bill has become payable granted to the debtor before suit can be brought against him or her or a penalty applied.”

Did that mean anything for anyone but me?

If you inserted the definition into the questions in the song, replacing the word grace - it’s even more powerful. Where would we be without an allowance of time after a debt, sin, or ungrateful spirit had become payable? If that allowance wasn’t granted to us by our debtor before suit could be brought against us or a penalty applied...

I try not to use this space as a pulpit, or to try and press religion on those of you who read, so understand that is not my intention. It’s for those who believe in a greater power, the Universe, or God - whatever you choose to call that which you believe or believe in - that love, that mercy, that grace that can only come from the Divine, it’s amazing.

I hope you all get the chance to hear the song (again, “Grace” by BeBe and CeCe Winans from their new album “Still”), and I’m praying that it moves you, and causes you to reflect on the greatness of that love, favor, and of course, grace.

j.

grace |grās|

-favor or good will.
-a manifestation of favor, esp. by a superior
-mercy; clemency; pardon
-favor shown in granting a delay or temporary immunity.
-an allowance of time after a debt or bill has become payable granted to the debtor before suit can be brought against him or her or a penalty applied

See the live performance on Friday's Oprah here