"The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too."
Does your team demonstrate grace in everything they do? Is it possible? I think it's possible to be graceful in the performance of our duties if we remember that our purpose is to serve. When we react to whatever comes our way with grace, we save ourselves from being reactionary. When we experience a patient in distress and we put aside our aggravation or judgment and just attend to the patient, we are being our best, most graceful self. Terrible things can happen in our lives at any time. How we respond can make the difference. Responding with care and compassion is graceful, and when a terrible event is approached that way, some beauty will result.
Every day is a day of your life. Every day is a day someone else might have given anything to have the privilege to live. Whatever we are experiencing, no matter how bad it seems, there is someone going through worse, who would give anything to be you.
Complaining is not graceful. Finding ways to affect positive change is. If your staff is driving you crazy think gracefully. What will make things get better? Even letting someone go can be done with grace. You can let them know that caring about the best for them right now means that they need to be free to find a place that they can be their best. If a co-worker and you just can't get along, be the person who lays down the olive branch. Ask to sit down with her and admit that there's a problem and that you'd like to take equal responsibility for it. Then ask what she thinks would make things better. And listen gracefully.
Grace makes things go better. Got grace?
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