I do not ask you to assume the role of a gracious person. I ask you to be one who is gracious.

When I suggest that you consider graciousness a part of you, I simply remind you of what is true. When you respond with other than grace, you are away from truth.

Let your heart rise in graciousness, and then your outer action will follow. Comprehend more, and you will be graciousness itself.

When you are gracious, the world responds differently to you. But that is not why you are gracious. You are gracious from your heart. Graciousness motivated from desired reward bears another name. I do not know what it is.

Certainly, the desire to be gracious of itself alone has value. Do desire it. But remember that graciousness is not an accomplishment. It is your being.

You host the universe. All who come to you come to you in the hopes that they will come to know Me through you. Perhaps you thought you were meant to be the guest. In a sense you are a guest on earth because you are a temporary visitor, but at the same time, you are nevertheless the one hosting the event, for do you not stand in My stead?

What is a host? He is one who sees to the comfort of others. He provides for them. He prepares the way for them. He makes their path easier and better. Surely he does not begrudge them or resent them or consider them an intrusion. He, after all, invited them.

And so, you are the genial host to life and all who share it with you.

Greet everyone who comes, for you know they have come to see you, and they have come at your behest. No one comes into your life uninvited. A certain vibration of thought called them to you. Or they may have called you to them. And you answered. In any case, you meet, and something transpires.

What do you want to have transpire? Surely, something more than just the passage of time.

You have messages to give, and you have messages to receive. Consider what messages you are giving. They are as important as the ones you receive. They may be more important. Yes, they are more important.

What messages do you want to give today? What do you want someone to come away with when they leave your presence today? What aspect of you would you like them to take with them? What sense of life do you want to leave them with? What gifts of thought are you giving them?

If you do not feel enough at home in the universe to serve as host, can you be then like an usher at a wedding and show all the other guests a good place to sit?

I tell you that you are a benefactor to the universe. You are to ease the way for the world and all its constituents. You set the pace. You are not an encumbrance. You are an opener to dimensions greater than those which presently seem to dominate the earth.

Open the world. Fling it open like a window in the early-morning sun. Wave your arm wide and bring others to this window so that they too may see more than they did before you opened it for them. That is how you share My grace.