I have been thinking about God's Grace.  What is Grace?  First grace is a gift given only from God.  We all experience it every day.
Grace is a kind jester from another person.  It's admitting you were wrong even if you don't want too.  It's making mistakes and asking for forgiveness and it is given. Grace is going through difficult times and you are better for it.  Grace is when your car slides through an intersection on a red light and you are not hit.  Grace turns the ugly in to the beautiful.  Grace is Love-Love is Jesus-Jesus is God.

I always imagine grace as being a ballerina dancing gracefully. There have been a lot of ugly events in my life some of my own doing and some done to me, but God has always been there giving me Grace.  I danced through it spinning and twirling, jumping and leaping.  Most times not even knowing God was doing this for me.
If I accept God's love  and forgiveness my life is just as graceful as that ballerina, flowing through life with peace.

It may look horrible on the outside but with God the inside is ok and I can remember the it's by Grace I am saved.  By the blood of Jesus I am a child of the living God and I have been righteous and holy. I can not be made this way by my own will, but by God's will.  Since Jesus is my Lord there is nothing I can do that would separate me from Him.  Then I can see myself has God sees me.  He made me!  Just like Geppetto made Pinocchio.  Geppetto loved Pinocchio even though Pinocchio made lots of bad choices.  I love this story because it's a great parallel to how God works.  Geppetto loves and never gives up on Pinocchio.  Jimmeny Cricket is like to Holy Spirit always there to guide us.  Geppetto is the Father in Heaven.  And the fairy is like Jesus, making us whole. (except she did not die on a cross)  but there is Grace.  She gives Pinocchio a second chance.  When Pinocchio  finally excepts the gift of grace he is made real.  Just like we are made "real" who we are meant to be just the way God created us.
Because I am made right by God I no longer have to worry about what other's think about me.  I am FREE to be ME!  My old self had died away!  Amen to that :)