What Grace Means to Me

[Rena Bryan]

I liked it, its like reminding your self hoe to be human and how to be successful in life.

[Keneilwe Shongwe]

I enjoyed reading the poem it felt like it was talking to me it has that honestly Written so I love it

[SINGH JAY]

I believe you have captured the issue that faces every individual in that they can become haughty if they have a lot of possessions, and I believe that everyone should read this poetry.

[MARGARET ADDAI-NUAKO]

I love it
Feels like a life we living and people are trying to deny it

[Agatha Ponde]

Hi there,
My pick is on
"To love and forgive unconditional but, only trust intelligently"
Why this is point, "because Grace is undeserved favor from God"

[Richard Githaiga]

Wow!
To be content, but not dead. This is so nice being contented does not mean you are dead.
Great grace

[Aiman Behzad]

I think this poem clearly represents how, we as a society, blur the boundaries between what we should do and what we actually end up doing. We find ourselves unable to distinguish between being rebellious and being tyrant. We sometimes don't know when we have become the tyrant we never wanted to become. That feeling consumes us till we actually end up becoming something that we dreaded coming.

[Andrew Fahmi]

i liked it very much and it shows the motivation of a person in life

[Lush28]

This is a very beautiful piece. It is well thought and touching.[/quote]

[Perpetual Gitari]

I think its a great piece that talks to alot of people and should also be a guide to most.

[Shantel Harris 2]

I hope you like it! love it! Beautiful words of Inspiration!!



What Grace Means to Me
by Scott Hughes


To be extremely confident, but not at all arrogant.

To be brave, but not fearless.

To be stoically tough, but not painless.

To be inspired, but not restless.

To have calm endurance without laziness.

To be motivated, but not greedy.

To have fun in this life, without addiction, attachment, or desperate clinginess.

To love and appreciate, without jealousy, cowardly possessiveness, or controlling anger.

To be alive, but not discontent.

To be content, but not dead.

To live as a mortal human, without becoming only human.

To treat your flesh as your temple, but not your true self.

To be at war in the material world, without losing inner peace.

To be kind, but not dishonest.

To love and forgive unconditionally, but only trust intelligently.

To be assertive, but not aggressive.

To forcefully defend your own as needed, but not offensively attack others.

To set boundaries without crossing boundaries.

To be rebellious and free, but not a tyrant.

To pick your battles stingily, but fight the battles you pick with incredible stubborn determination.

To rarely choose to do, but to do your best when you do.

To be stubbornly decisive and self-determined, but accepting of that which you cannot control.

To do your best with the metaphorical cards you’re dealt, without trying to change the cards at all.

To do, without trying.

To achieve ultimate inner peace without having to first suffer ultimate outward devastation.

To choose to make where you are now your personal rock bottom before hitting actual rock bottom.

To choose to turn your life around before it is too late and there is no life left to turn around.

[Opeyemi Mustapha]

This is a master piece
It touches all the aspects of life

[Thivviya Ravichandran]

Very sorry for this late reply for this such a wonderful poem which I have read recently.!!
I could catch the mindset of our poet who willing to motivate us indirectly with every single lines from this poem. "To be at war in the material world, without losing inner peace" this quote actually describes each one of our minds. We actually suffer much to live on this planet to make ourselves happy and satisfied. Even we have to fight with ourselves sometimes to over come from quite some unwanted stuff. Our poet just replaced this quote to denote a moral of our lives.!
"To forcefully defend your own....." this quote actually suits many of us in this most cruel world. Most of us don't think about others mind and sickness. Just hurt others to defend themselves simply. This quote actually gives lesson directly to those kinds of people.
"To do, without trying" this quote actually motivated me to write this reply as soon I read this poem. Because everyone of us fears to do. We first try, try, try.... so on. But not willing to do fearlessly. Instead of do the things we even trying for it. This kind of mind set have to be changed from us. The hesitation have to be removed from our minds. Moreover I loved each lines from this poem. But the mentioned lines by me in this paragraph touched me very closely about life and morality..! Thanks for this poem..!!

[Mia Bui]

It seems you put a lot of thought into this piece, and I mean an l and I guess it sums up all of your life philosophy. I agree on most points and it is very inspiring I must admit. This poem appears as a manifesto of the human condition.

[Carlene Taylor 1]

It seems you have written a poem of advice that we all strive to achieve. There is just one line that maybe could be slightly altered. In the line "to be kind, but not dishonest", although I think I know what you mean, I feel the use of the word "but" does not quite fit.