Defining Grace :: Definition Grace Essays

Defining Grace The Dictionary of the Accademia della Crusca, dating from 16th century Italy, defines aggrandise as belleza... che rapisce altrui ad amore. Grace is beauty which seduces one unto love. Grace is the requester before nourishment, it is the passing of power through and through blood, it is a classical muse, it is a verb, it is liberation, it is a head-ransom, it is a gazelle, it is simplicity, it is complexity, it is sanctifying, it is controversial, it is desired, it is metrical, it is ubiquitous, it is rare, it is actual. Grace is in all, yet beyond all, quotes a medieval anchoress. According to Castiglione, grace springs from that virtue opposite to affectation, as an unconscious(p) extension of a certain je ne sais quoi within the soul. Grace is the temper of language, of number, of beat, of silence. Grace is pervasively elusive. Grace is fueled by its own root in the Greek charis, with its shadows of liberality and courtesy forwarded to Latin rhetoric, as th e three-party gratia, functioning as attractiveness, favour, and gratitude. The word flushed the face of Europe in its own blushing migration from tongue to tongue, from Italian gratia to Portuguese graa to Spanish gracia to French grce. Gliding from thought to pen to heritage, grace seeped over the line of reasoning into Chaucers fathers smalltalk and a pair of listening ears waxed attentive. The patients of his Doctors Tale questioned, Goode fader shal I dyestuff? Is ther no grace? is ther no remedye? Grace is the ripping of change through the fabric of time, loosing the weave to weft in bright, unwashed strands of witty innovation. Is not great grace to helpe him over past, Or free his feet that in the myre sticke spendthrift? beats the iambic pentameter of the Spenserian stanza in the Faerie Queene. Is it not grace that proved the continuance of its own existence, a linguistic parallel intertwining with the branches of biologic generations to originate the graciousness of f reedom in both the fruits of the opposable thumb and the serpents orchard apple tree? A rugged, mottled bark of genealogy stretches gracefully into the blue alternate of infinity. Grace, the present of the future, the gift of tomorrow, the cornerstone of the past, vaults us forward into the lives of our progeny and the evolution of our species. Born from the randomly graced confluence of organic chemicals in small pockets of lipide bilayers, life sparked and sputtered.