Karl Rahner on Grace

had to pass this along---it's too good to keep:

Karl Rahner understands grace as gushing from the innermost heart and center of the human being and of the entire world.  God's self-communication, to Rahner, "does not take place as a special phenomenon, as one particular process apart from the rest of human life.  Raher it is quite simply the ultimate depths and the radical dimension of all that which the spiritual person experiences, achieves, and suffers in all those areas in which he achieves his own fullness, and so in his laughter and his tears, in his taking of responsibility, in his loving, living, and dying, whenever he keeps faith with the truth, breaks through his own egotism in his relationships with his neighbor, whenever he hopes against all hope, whenever he smiles and refuses to be disquieted or embittered by the folly of his everyday pursuits, whenever he is able to be silent, and whenever within this silence of the heart that evil which man has engendered against another in his heart does not develop any further into external action but rather dies within this heart as its grave----whenever, in a word, life is lived as a man would seek to live it, in such a way as to overcome his own egotism and the despair of the heart which constantly assails him.  There grace has the force of an event, because all this of its very nature...loses itself in God's silent infinity, is hidden in his absolute unconditionality of the future in the fullness of victory which in turn is God Himself."

[my reflection:]
kind of makes Emmanuel--God is with us---come alive, doesn't it?