The Grace Beyond the Senses
A reflection on mercy, grace, and the relational love of God
The highest form of love is not romantic, nor platonic, nor even the warmth of brotherhood — it is something far greater.
It is a love saturated with the grace of God; a love that descends upon you in the quiet of your solitude, yet carries no shadow of sadness with it.
And here lies its great paradox, one that confounds all who have not yet tasted it: that tears may fall freely from a grace-filled heart, and still that heart remains at peace.
For these are not tears of grief — they are the fingerprints of God’s tenderness upon the soul, a comfort so complete, so utterly whole, that no human hand, however loving, could ever replicate it.
Only His love, mercy, grace, and forgiveness can reach that depth.
It is said that love is relational by its very nature — that it finds its fullest expression not in one, but in three: the lover, the beloved, and the living force of love that moves between them.
It is precisely through this motion, this sacred current, that God delivers to you His deepest affection.
Love, in its truest form, is never static. It flows. And it is in that flow that you are found.
Mercy, grace, and forgiveness — in the experience of the faithful — stand as three of the most luminous gifts a believer in Christ can ever receive.
To encounter them is not merely to understand them intellectually, but to be overcome by them; arrested by a sensation of divine compassion so profound it silences every other noise within you.
It is through the trinity of love that you come to know the oneness of God.
It is through this trinity of divine compassion — mercy, grace, and forgiveness — that you are drawn, almost without knowing it, into the shelter of His hands.
For God is singular in His nature, yet relational in His love; one, and yet always reaching toward you.
Beautiful and sincere, though the line that really landed for me is the one about tears falling from a peaceful heart. That’s real. Too many people think grace should look tidy, emotionally efficient, spiritually photogenic. But sometimes mercy wrecks you gently. Sometimes the holiest thing in the room is not certainty. It’s a soul being undone without despair.
THE CROSS OF CHRIST IN THE MIDST OF OUR EMBRACE
By
George Engelhard
C 2017
Intro
Give a vine something to climb
It’ll do it
It’ll be hard to tear it down
It’ll cling so tightly to it
Verse
We were climbing the wall, two separate hearts
Trying to stay together while climbing apart
Holding on loosely on the edges of our love
Easy to let go when the hard times come
Verse
But then we found the Cross of Jesus Christ
Not cold dead stone but a Tree full of Life
Something to hold onto, something to hold us up
Something to hold onto when the going gets rough
Extras
Wrapped around the Tree of Eternity
I hold onto you, you hold onto me
As we hold onto the Tree
We can’t be torn apart
So thoroughly entwined are our souls and our heart
So thoroughly entwined are we around this Tree
We’ll be thoroughly entwined for Eternity
We’re two lovers by His grace
Attached to the cross of Christ
In the midst of our embrace
The Tree we cling to is the Tree of Life
The Tree of Life is the Cross of Jesus Christ
It’s the Wood of the Cross that hold us up
In our sacrifice of ourselves for each other
In our sacrifice of Love