And you’re going to work, and you’re going to work, and you’re going to work, and then suddenly it’s going to be right. It will go from being the million-sided polygon into a circle. That pop can only occur in grace, which is to say gratis, which is to say for free…Another way of putting it is it’s preparation for receptivity. If you hadn’t have worked, you wouldn’t have been prepared to receive the gift that comes.
When I think of grace, I think it’s the thing that happens over and above all the other stuff you did that suddenly makes something shimmer and glow.
(Source: The New York Times)
