grace

I read these excerpts on grace this morning . . . 

A first experience of God's grace could feel as if we have landed in a world where 2+2 might knock at our door and introduce herself as 5, where a wrench falls out of our hand, it rises to the ceiling. There is a weightlessness about grace. It has the feel of a fairy tale; what makes it a very special fairy tale is that it is true.  --Lewis B. Smedes, Shame and Grace

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace--only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. It can be received gladly or grudgingly, in big gulps or in tiny tastes, like a deer at the salt. I goggled it, licked it, held it down between my little hooves. --Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies