“Everything is grace.”  A phrase uttered by St. Thérèse when she was not able to receive the Eucharist when she was dying.  I can’t say that that’s the first thing that comes to my mind when things go in a direction different than I would like–like they already are today.  🙂  Pray for me, Thérèse.   Pray for us.  May God’s grace meet us right where we are.

If we love God, we will understand that everything is grace, that Job’s sores were grace, that Job’s abandonment was grace, that even Jesus’ abandonment (‘My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?) was grace.  Even the delay of grace is grace.  Suffering is grace.  The cross is grace.  The grave is grace. . . . (Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering, p. 144)