Let me pause and consider
how grace is given us,
moment by moment,
day after day

Not as some rare prize
we came on by chance
or earned with great virtue
or masterful play

Grace is given —
it blesses us,
though we’re confounded
by how we occasioned it,
how it arrives

Grace we live in
will bless, too,
the others around us –
in blessing us, they, too,
will graciously thrive.

©Wendy Mulhern
June 25, 2019