A viewer asks: “I wonder if we have fully addressed the concept of God’s grace. The term was used often in my Catholic youth but I’m not sure if I know what it is, or if such an independent energy exists. Is God’s grace another term for love and light? Is it something that flows automatically when healing occurs? Is it a human contrived concept to explain why others have comforts that you do not, to keep you striving? Is it a by-product of healing or a bonus? Is it the secret ingredient, or rocket fuel that hasn’t occurred to us to request by name? If it is something that can be requested, maybe now’s the time. What is Creator’s perspective on this?”

Just because you are asking, we can tell you that divine grace is all of these things as you have recognized through your thoughtful question and its many potential examples of divine grace in action. It is often misunderstood and that contributes to human misperception of what divine grace really represents, and such misrepresentations may well persist and become a part of religious dogma and imparted to many others. That has happened with much information about the divine and the divine realm. Few have a good grasp of the big picture and appreciate the rules of engagement governing how we operate. The most important thing for you to know is the truest definition of divine grace is our love when it is on the wing, so to speak, when it is being applied as an instrument of change as a solution to a dilemma, a reassurance, an inspiration, or as healing energy. What makes it divine grace, as opposed to simply divine energy, is represented by the fact bestowing love has rules and even constraints for us when it comes to gifting human beings with extra help or special treatment. As we have taught, there are requirements for receiving divine assistance. There must be belief in the divine and there must be belief in the self as being worthy of divine intervention, and to receive something truly meaningful may also require much of the human recipient in the way of awareness of why a dilemma exists, what needs to be done to set it right, and how even the divine might bring that about, and thus have some awareness of how the divine realm solves problems and helps humans overcome them. When someone is in the throes of a dilemma and struggling and, despite the dark times, experiences a turnaround, a breakthrough, a lessening of torment as their ship rights itself, so to speak, that turnaround is a good example of divine grace, a kind of extra assist, a dispensation of the gifting of love that is much needed. So this is a roundabout way of saying simply that divine grace is the gifting of love to overcome a karmic dilemma, and thus bring about a resolution of trouble more quickly than would otherwise be the case. By definition, divine grace is an extra benefit that is always bestowed for a reason because it is going above and beyond what otherwise would likely happen due to the workings of karma that will park serious problems at your door, and then it will be up to you to cope with and overcome the suffering it causes. When people run their lives effectively, they will be in a partnership with the divine, and that sharing openly of their lives with the Almighty will allow requesting divine assistance and receiving divine grace quite readily, and that is truly the blessing of divine partnership in that it empowers the human to summon divine interventions effectively. The fullest answer to your question, in wanting to understand what this all means, is that what humans need, individually and collectively, is intensive divine healing to enable living more in divine alignment and more effectively through cultivating and establishing a good working relationship as a partner with us at all times throughout your life. As such, divine grace is the end product of working towards reaching that as a goal.