When beauty touches our lives, the moment becomes luminous. These grace moments are gifts that surprise us.

 

John O’Donohue, Divine Beauty :The Invisible Embrace

 

We have to be allowing of beauty. As advised by John O’Donohue , we have to trade our knowledge for bewilderment.  We have to allow the wildness of the feminine to express through us.

 

Most of us are gifted beyond our wildest imagination. To be the expression of Love in form would surprise us beyond our limited sense of who we are.  We have learned and often been encouraged to lose touch. We have armoured our bodies and surrounded ourselves with briars of judgement and doubt about our own creative flow that is the movement of beauty into form.

 

We have imprisoned beauty high in the tower of intellectual knowledge where all is consigned to the known. In the tower of this type of knowledge there are limited surprises but not the miracle of that which is luminous with beauty.

 

Grace moments, as the grace writer and poet John O’Donohue reminds us, come along and surprise us. In music there are what are called grace notes. These tend to be the notes that are surprises and arise out of improvisation. The musician has been graced a response to the moment. These notes tend to be delicate and fleeting but add much to the music being played.

 

What do you do with such grace moments? Do you honour them? Do you say ‘thank you’ for them flowing through you? Or do you claim that they are your own and bank them in your knowledge bank of things that you know about?

 

Alternatively, do you allow them to become an invitation to the return to beauty? You make Her invitation your invitation. You do what it takes to become one of the beautiful people we in Ireland call the Tuatha de Danaan – the Shining Ones. You make it your aligned purpose to become a vehicle for grace.

 

How do you do this? Through a practice of discipline that is the more active part and the paradox of surrender that reflects the feminine aspect.  This is the marriage of the masculine and feminine within you. It is the unification of your energy system. It is health giving but its intention is sacred, meaning to make whole.

 

This has to be of value to you. It has to have some sense of passion. You cannot really be grace-filled without your willingness to give your heart away to the Beloved. You cannot really be surprised if you aren’t willing to let go into what is unknown. You cannot become a beautiful birthing of grace without entering the wild divine within you.

 

The journey into love is not lukewarm. It involves passion that grows into compassion. It burns away all that is resistance to the entry of beauty into the grace of the moment. This is not hellfire but the fire of Love. It is often very wild and bewildering. While your ego will resist, your soul will persist in its invitation to Love. Your choice is to follow knowledge or wildness.

 

These grace moments are true gifts.  They are gifts that leave you feeling expansive. You are for a moment filled by that Divine invisible embrace, warm and timeless. It grows you spiritually, which is a paradox. You grow by letting go into the luminous.  You can then do nothing more than give this flow of grace away. This is what such grace moments are. They are the flow of the boundless into a boundary that then expands and flows into other boundaries.

 

An Anamcara invites you to learn practices and ways of becoming attuned to the beauty that is ready to radiate from within you and grace this world of form.  Are you willing to trade your knowledge about beauty for being wild that is at the heart of who you already are?

 

This trade means giving away your rags of limitation for the riches of creation that you were designed to give away.  Then you live in a real sense of abundance that no one except yourself can take away from you.

 

Are you ready to radiate the beauty within you?

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