An Easter Message

To say that “life is good” is not a personal, social, or ecological reality, but an ontological reality, which means that life, as it is, doesn’t get any better than this, however “this” shows up. The power at the heart of life is full of grace: always accepting, forgiving, and loving; always enlivening, transforming, and resurrecting. Death is not the last frontier. Possibility, born of grace, is.

There is no time, place, or relationship that is not grounded in the reality of grace; therefore, life hates the phrase “but for the grace of God there go I.” It loves the phrase “t’weren’t for grace none would go.” In the world of grace, which is the only world there is, there is no such thing as the wrong time, the wrong place, or the wrong relationship. This time, this place, and this relationship are absolutely good because grace is (the ontic factor).

Evolutionarily, grace is always birthing a new ecological, social, and personal reality. If our knowing and doing are not grounded in grace (and most knowing and doing that I observe are not), guess what: a graceless ecology, sociality, and personality abort the good life for all concerned. ~jpc

Grace is the heart of all, and we deny it at our peril. Namaste.

image: the Illinois GRACE Project (Global Resource Adaptation through CoopEration) rsim.cs.uiuc.edu/grace/