LIfe is grace for it was GRACED
by PMS

Paul in his letters to the Romans said that the law of God is written in the hearts of wo/men. The yearning for God is already inscribe in our hearts before we even knew God. If such is the case, I believed that life and everything in it is grace because God graces everything.
There are many experiences in my life wherein it seems that God has abandoned or rejected me. It is due to the fact of the struggles, hardships, and difficulties I have encountered in life would always be interpreted as a sign of misfortune, abandonment, or punishment from God for all the sins and bad things I have done against Him and others. These feelings and thoughts are for me very valid since it is not only I who would look at these life heart-rending experiences as such. I knew several people who would encounter the same difficulties that I have encountered and would say that God has abandoned them.
However, as I grew in my awareness in my journey of faith towards God, I reflected and realized that such trials and predicaments in this life are but steps to a deeper relationship with God. Such suffering leads me to understand that even in this difficult times God has always been there to me. Such sufferings leads me to perseverance, leading to character which gives me hope, a hope that leads me to even greater and deeper love of God and my neighbor.
On time during a spiritual reading, I encountered a beautiful article which eventually change my perspective of suffering, pains and life itself. It was really a grace-filled moment. There’s this one paragraph that really struck me and it says: “To lived the ‘be-attitudes’ of Christ is to take a positive side of life or of living. How we live our lives depend on how we perceived it. Therefore, we must turn scars into stars, obstacles into opportunities, problems into possibilities, stumbling blocks into stepping-stones, dead into resurrection. When never these difficult and heart rending experience comes to our lives, we should see them not as demons of destructions rather as angels of annunciation.” This really struck me deep down and eventually changed my perceptions about life’s struggles. Now, everything is life seems so positive, so optimistic and that this gives more meaning to my life.
It is in this point that I have reckoned that it is all the work of God’s grace in my life. I have come to realize that everything in my life is grace and a source of grace because he has beforehand has graced it. I now even regard the many sufferings, dilemmas, and undertakings in my life as grace; as well as sources of God’s grace which helps we more worthy of the salvation he has already promise to me. Moreover, this life of grace in itself because it is a graced life. How did I know such? Because I could see it in the many grace-filled moments that I encounter each day of my life. My journey of faith keeps me ever responsive to the presence of this grace transforming this present this present situation with grace to become in itself grace and a source of grace leading to the life God has promised to all his children.