{"id":110,"date":"2014-04-22T16:41:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T20:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marshasummers.com\/wordpress\/?p=110"},"modified":"2014-04-22T16:41:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T20:41:53","slug":"meaning-of-the-word-grace-and-story-of-the-loaf-of-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marshasummers.com\/wordpress\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Meaning of the word \u201cgrace\u201d and story of the loaf of bread"},"content":{"rendered":"

(From Marsha) Sometimes as we go through our day, we concentrate on what we want and don\u2019t have, what ought to be, and what\u2019s wrong with this or that.\u00a0 We forget to look at what we already have and can be thankful for.\u00a0 The following couple of paragraphs from the Newport 1980 workshop give some insight as to how we might look at these daily circumstances a little differently.\u00a0 Here it is:<\/span><\/p>\n

Grace is to recognize we have all kinds of undeserved goods.\u00a0 In other words, I didn’t do anything to be here at the party.\u00a0 That was pure unadulterated gifty, ok?\u00a0 So we have reasonably good health and we can be thankful for about every other thing we have.\u00a0 There are interesting people around and there are interesting things to do.\u00a0 If we just think of all the things that were here when we were born, we have to say we have a lot of things we didn’t earn.\u00a0 In fact, I about got to the point we don’t earn anything, we just all make little contributions to things operating.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I tried to figure out one time that if one loaf of bread were made just for one of us through the commercial channels, that the thing would cost billions of dollars.\u00a0 So none of us could buy a loaf of bread – – as it is, we all contribute a little bit to the farmer, we all contribute a little bit to the transportation, we all contribute a little bit to the miller, we all contribute a little bit to the baker, and we all contribute a little bit to the yeast grower.\u00a0 We contribute a little bit, and we can then go over and buy a loaf of bread for less than a dollar even with inflation. (Well with inflation it\u2019s more now.) So I would say that we don’t ever earn anything – – that about everything I have I consider is \u201c<\/span><\/span><\/span>undeserved goods<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u201d or \u201cgrace\u201d that has just simply been laid on me.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So I have, certainly, a very decided sense of being very thankful for all these undeserved goods and I believe maybe being thankful is truly an action of one sort or another.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(From Marsha) And the experiment might be:\u00a0 How do I feel inside when I re-evaluate all that I already have; and when the inner state sees this, the feeling can be radiated throughout our day to others.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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