Certain concepts are hard for me to define - and consequently, to understand. One of them (for me) is the concept of "grace," in speaking of "the grace of God."
So I did find it helpful to read (in the final chapter of the book, Life with God - a chapter entitled "Living by Grace") Richard Foster's comment:
"Grace is the invisible made visible in ways we could never dream of, much less bring about. We know that grace is real because through divine empowerment, we find we are enabled to be and do in ways that would never be possible on our own.
"Grace is a reality completely opposite to the realities of this world. The kingdom of this world operates on limited supply, competition for resources, an increasingly diminished and threatened environment. But grace operates like this: the more we use it, the more there is of it..." (p. 188)
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