September 6, 2022

Jack Kerouac once said, “In America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it [...] and nobody, nobody knows what’s going to happen.”

His description somehow reminds me of the grace of God: it’s enormity, endlessness, and boundary defying possibility. With the grace of God in your life and in the world, you just don’t know what is going to happen. Although you do know that it will be a kind of good that, in the end, blows you away.

As St. Paul says, “And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.” (Ephesians 2:6-7)

“Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us, that we may continually be given to good works;through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Proper 23 – BCP)