A Good Grace is Hardly Found

[David Morris]

Grace is Groove!  Being in it.

Never getting caught or killed.  Not getting the bad.

But it really means transcendence, salvation, a happy ending, what
everybody wants.

Grace is God, believe Him/Her or not.  Atheists still want it, but know
better, alas.

Can't be bought or begged.

Seek Grace, but verify.

David Morris

On Tuesday, November 27, 2012, alice wellintown wrote:

> So, I must admit that I failed, failed fairly miserably to explain
> Grace to a room packed with non-Christian kids from the emerging
> economies come to Brooklyn to be hipsters, who stand about like so
> many clean, somehow antithetically, younger brothers incarcerated in
> my Sonny's Blues Project, and that I have, when the tightening
> sphincter, or the tightening tourniquet bubbling a dragon under my
> skin pierced by a China white butterfly's pin, chased Grace under fire
> with blood on the wire, there, where a good man is hard, where a hard
> man is good, where the finds are fine and a heart is a heart
> like...like, whatever...is this Flannery
> O'Connor...like...saying....like...Grace?
>
> “There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to
> stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls
> at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today
> looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is
> the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether,
> and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a
> novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He
> wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock
> innocence.”
>
> “All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is
> not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories
> as hard, hopeless and brutal.”
>
> “Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost
> imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for
> the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.”
>
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