What experience would I call a moment of grace?

As I recall this moment, what is my felt sense of it?
Can I name the sense? Symbolize it?

What experience would I call lacking in grace?

As I recall this moment, what is my felt sense of it?
Can I name the sense? Symbolize it?

I give thanks for these recollections and ask that they might
guide me in my desire to draw closer to God.

Meditate: Once I have found a word, phrase or movement that speaks to me in a personal way, I spend time pondering it. I may want to look up the root and meanings of a word to get a more full sense of it. I let it interact with my thoughts, hopes, memories, desires. Wherever my reflection has taken me, I lift these up to the God of love and compassion. Whether I have had a sense of gratitude, pain, awe or shame, I accept that God’s love for me has not changed. It is I who am changed, not God. I gently speak the word or phrase from the earlier steps as a symbol of healing, blessing or gratitude.

Contemplate: Finally, I rest in God’s presence, grateful for any transformation (conscious or unconscious) that has occurred in me.