Grace
Monday, November 28th, 2005I was hoping to have chance to read these Lyrics out yesterday at our CCN Family meeting, but the opportunity didn’t quite arrive. So they arrive here instead!
Grace
She takes the blame
She covers the shame
Removes the stain
It could be her nameGrace
It’s a name for a girl
It’s also a thought that changed the world
And when she walks on the street
You can hear the strings
Grace finds goodness in everythingGrace, she’s got the walk
Not on a ramp or on chalk
She’s got the time to talk
She travels outside of karma
She travels outside of karma
When she goes to work
You can hear her strings
Grace finds beauty in everythingGrace, she carries a world on her hips
No champagne flute for her lips
No twirls or skips between her fingertips
She carries a pearl in perfect conditionWhat once was hurt
What once was friction
What left a mark
No longer stings
Because grace makes beauty
Out of ugly thingsGrace makes beauty out of ugly things
U2, All the You Can’t Leave Behind
I like that a lot. Grace does the work of “redemption” - turning to good what once was rubbish [Bono probably would use a different word]. Are you a “GRACE” person? Do you turn to good and see good in things you encounter in life?
By the way, I decided to get some info on the line “She travels outside of Karma”. Karma is a Buddhist “law” related to cause and effect. Karma is the automatic respnse to and event or action. A person can create Good Karma [ a "pleasant" consequence] by acting skillfully, i.e.by not acting out of craving, resistance or delusions. What does it mean to say then that Grace travels outside of Karma. I guess it means that grace transcends the mechanical “law” of cause and effect, “fate” is not the controller. Grace works outside of that. Grace can turn even ‘unskillful’ actions to good. “Grace makes beauty out of ugly things”.
