"You can have the other words--chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it." Mary Oliver

Nope, you can't pin down grace. All we know for sure is that it is able to fill in the cracks of life when nothing else can. Maybe that is possible because we can't explain how it happens or that even bigger question: how we deserve it. We can only receive grace or be an instrument for it—usually without our knowledge. In the daily slog of living grace filled encounters redirect our attention back to the powerful and beautiful and profound intangibles of living we lose touch with. Perhaps that's part of the gift. Grace is intended to be an embrace from God; an assurance we can trust the mystery of what we don't know as much as what we do.