Grace, After All

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Cambo
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Grace, After All

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Deer, Linna, and Furls each played a part in inspiring this poem. Of course, when I speak of grace I do not mean the the specific Grace of Jesus. But I like to think the concept is the same.

Grace, After All

It took a long time
But eventually
He reached a place where he fell
And couldn’t rise again.

His convictions
That had secured him
In the knowledge he was right
Gave way to ambiguity.

His passion
Which had inflamed him
And lit his way through the night
Guttered in the torch.

His will
Which had driven him
Escaped in huffing clouds
From his slack mouth.

It was grace, after all
That lifted him
And warmed his weary soul
Through the unforgiving night.
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Post by Linna Heartbooger »

Thank you, I am flattered to have something to do with such words about grace.

It is a picture of a need for grace that I in my own weakness so easily identify with.
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor

"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
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