Magnification of Grace

Thy way, O God, is holy.
Psalm 77: 13, RSV


"What happens in prayer is that an awareness develops: a lot more is going on in the world than I am conscious of when I am disappointed, or hurt, or frustrated, or embittered. ...

Meditation is an intensification of awareness, of perception. When the focus of mediation is narrowly bound by feelings of self-pity, the self in isolation, the result is an intensification of misery. But if the focus in on God in the self, on God in history, on God in creation, the result is a magnification of grace: "Thy way, O God, is holy."

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"Magnification of Grace", God's Message for Every Day by Eugene Peterson.