Thomas F said (January 21, 2015):

This refreshing article about Grace. You drum on the evil a lot (which is a good thing, sure), but then showing your human side and just
saying: Hey, there IS more to it than their ways. Like the qoute(which I heard for the first time today, from my human mother no less
- Grace? :)): "better to light a candle than to curse the darkness".

Grace: Every year, when the plants start coming up, God is showing us that Life and Beauty will always, always, always be stronger than
anything arrayed against It. But, I respect your work, and thank you for it, too :)

All the Best, to you and your readers,

Bill S said (January 21, 2015):

Thanks for sharing your two examples of serendipity with us and inviting us to share ours. I took a cruise in 2002. One of our ports of call was Key West. We were told not to rent jet skis or do para-sailing. So of course I went para-sailing. A paid extra to float extra high. I passed over an exclusive island where Paul Newman lived. Pretty cool. But the best was yet to come. As I wandered around town, I came to a place in the street that was blocked by a mob of people. There was a stage, but the black back of it was facing me. As I got closer, I could here the music and it sounded familiar. Turns out, it was a free Jimmy Buffett concert!

Robert K said (January 21, 2015):

Proof of Grace is everywhere around us, but we are conditioned not to recognize it but instead to imagine that what we enjoy we have earned through our own efforts. For starters, just think about the mind-blowing coordinated functioning of the organs of your body. What do you have to do with the life-sustaining operation of this system?

The ultimate expression of Grace is our capacity for love. Those who experience love know that without it, living is pointless, and our purpose is to permeate all relations with love. Take notice, all psychopaths/careerists.

I think serendipity is different from Grace, being the unexpected happy conjuncture of events that impresses upon our minds that the world is not merely mechanical (cause and effect) but somehow is biased in our favour.

Jeff said (January 21, 2015):

Years ago I was working in eastern Europe. One summer a group of us went on an end of summer vacation. A girl I'd had an interest in all summer ended up with me talking all alone on a beach in Greece as we watched the sun go down. After we rode back into town on my moped, we thought we'd try to find a restaurant in town for dinner. So off we headed off down dimly lit winding side streets on foot, getting lost and laughing till we found this little creperie on a little side street. We had a most fantastic and romantic dinner! We had more encounters that summer, all innocent but full of romantic tension. It was a great summer! My only regret, not kissing her as my train prepared to leave for Prague later that summer.

My second concerns my buddy. My almost constant companion for these last eight years - my dog. I had gone to the humane society to check out the dogs. I wanted a Shepard and as I was looking at one, a lady and her daughter wandered by stopping at the cage next to me, looked at this reclusive dog saying "Wow, that is an amazing dog!" before continuing on. I thought, perhaps I should take another look. I did, I put a hold on the dog for two weeks, coming back several times till I adopted her. I was living in a place at the time that didn't allow dogs but I did it anyway.

So, she started out from the start going everywhere with me. Eventually my landlord relented and she's been my faithful companion for 8 years now. I constantly have people stop me on the street commenting on what a beautiful dog she is and asking what kind she is. She's just a miscellaneous but she's been the best dog I've ever had. Everyone who meets her falls in love with her. She's been a blessing in a really mixed up world.

Roy said (January 21, 2015):

From our previous communications you know that I do not believe in what you believe about the past and the current world situations and the powers that you believe are behind it all (although I do believe as you do about the dangers of pornography ) but I do want to thank-you very much for what you wrote in your “Afterthought.”

It was not only very touching and sincere but extremely important as well.

Too often we get caught up in the negative that we ourselves see around us-whatever that might be-and we forget to “ count our blessings.”

Thank-you for the reminding us of that.

Marco said (January 20, 2015):

Well if serendipity is grace from God, then God has been generous with me.

A few personal examples I can think of are...
Coming home from a long mentally, physically and spiritually day at work and coming across a beautiful piece of music that captivates my attention fully for the rest of the night, helping me rest.

Or meditating on the goodness of God and being taken to a fuller knowledge of Him unknowingly.
Or simply listening to some beautiful piece of music and being taken back to some old cherished memory and remembering my hearts true desires.

And to fit all these 'chance' encounters with beauty into the whole current world conspiracy - “Beauty will save the world” Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Thanks for the article

Adrian said (January 20, 2015):

Returning home from a pub meal two friends fell asleep. Unaffected by a single beer, I sat in a nearby chair musing about their good friendship and the recent departure of a girlfriend.

Emotional oscillation of happiness and melancholy suddenly morphed into a state of confusion between the two. As a scientist, I was fascinated and internally observed it for about 20 minutes. Suddenly a feint tingling began in my toes and fingers and a wonderful energy began flowing and amplifying from these points into the top of my head. After several minutes of almost unbearable pleasure a feint light flickered for a tenth of a second behind the eyes. The explosion of my consciousness screamed outward, bathed in the light of a thousand suns, imprinting on my mind the connectedness, knowledge, life, immortality and love of the universe behind the veil of "reality".

This Kundalini, evolutionary phenomenon, known throughout cultures and ages (except ours) is due to the grace of God.