The Unmerited Gift: Grace and Mercy
Grace Shin-Ae Lee
Ms.Johnson
Definition Essay
20/10/2006
866 words
Grace is generally mercy from God. Grace is beauty and elegance. To understand the word more than knowing the definition of the world would probably give a better and clear understanding of the word in one’s mind. There are several kinds of ways to explain this definition. The three types of ways that I chose are details of the word, negations of the word, and examples of the word.
A definition of a word is simply the meaning of the word describing with simple words and easier ways. To go more into the subject about grace, there are two different definitions of this word. One is describing a person or a thing when they are beautiful and attractive. We call people ‘graceful’ when they are admirable, charming, or delicate, and when they act like a gentle and merciful person. Acting gracefully is being a noble person, not acting ignorantly which means acting mindlessly, but dignified and refined, with elegance. Furthermore, an example of acting gracefully, is being careful and cautious of what one has said or acted is an important qualification. People who act audaciously are the negation of this example. For the second definition of this word ‘grace’, which is the most famous known and familiar definition, is mercy from other people, especially from God. It is the unmerited kindness and favor given by people who think or feel sorry to the receiver. Usually, we think about God’s mercy when we think about grace. Grace is a gift and it’s always freely given. God gave His one and only son by His wide and wonderful Grace. We are saved by the Grace of God, that he forgives our sins when we ask Him to. Grace generally means that you will not be getting what you so richly deserve.
Negation is the opposite meaning or statement of the word, which means to tell the antonym of the word. To understand the word better than just knowing the definitions, drawing a clear line between what is right and what is wrong is also a good way of starting to write the negations of the word. Grace is beauty and attractiveness as I said on the first paragraph. I also mentioned that it is used both physically and acting. However, people who try to be graceful and trick others by just trying to get into the qualification of being graceful are not really who the world call ‘graceful’. Grace is being natural, naïve, and innocent. It must come out from deep in the heart, not pretending to be one. It should not be in the qualification of ‘grace’ by affectation, but by the natural and plain heart. Also, the second definition of the word, which was mercy, is forgiving others. Here, forgiving doesn’t mean getting away of people’s fault just because you have to. It means to be generous to people. It means to give and share, forgive and absolve things that they have done wrong by mistake, or sometimes even with purposes. It doesn’t mean to feel sorry for the people, but to help others, by forgiving or giving mercy to them. It must be sincerely, whole-heartedly, and for more, earnestly.
For the last section of this explanation paragraph of the definition essay, I want to give an example of the word to make a clearer definition in the reader’s mind. When you work for somebody and get a fair pay for working, it is simply called salaries or wages. It is just being fair, calculating and counting the benefits of what you have done for somebody else. When you compete with somebody and receive a gift from winning, it is called a prize or reward. It is a gift that you deserve to receive, because of what you have done by your talents. When you receive appropriate recognition for your long service or high achievement of something, it is called an award. This is also an acceptable present or prize, because you have done and achieved what other people required. However, when you are not capable of earning a wage, no ability to win a prize competing with others, or not be able to deserve an award, yet you still receive such a gift anyways, this is called the grace. It is the gifts that are always given freely to you even though you don’t deserve to have one, because you are not in any of these qualifications-earning a wage, being able to compete and win somebody, or being highly deserved to get an award. It is feeling compassion and generosity with great blessings and mercy. Therefore, we-and everything- are all God’s grace, because we are the blessings and gifts to this world.
Grace was, is, and is always going to be enduring. Grace is the unmerited gifts and blessings from people who are generous and kind-hearted. Grace will never end, and should not come to the end, because living in the world without ‘grace’ will be full of darkness and hopelessness. There will be no dreams in people’s life without having grace in this whole world. Grace is not getting what we are deserved to. It is not less, but more than what we deserve to have.
20/10/2006
866 words
Grace is generally mercy from God. Grace is beauty and elegance. To understand the word more than knowing the definition of the world would probably give a better and clear understanding of the word in one’s mind. There are several kinds of ways to explain this definition. The three types of ways that I chose are details of the word, negations of the word, and examples of the word.
A definition of a word is simply the meaning of the word describing with simple words and easier ways. To go more into the subject about grace, there are two different definitions of this word. One is describing a person or a thing when they are beautiful and attractive. We call people ‘graceful’ when they are admirable, charming, or delicate, and when they act like a gentle and merciful person. Acting gracefully is being a noble person, not acting ignorantly which means acting mindlessly, but dignified and refined, with elegance. Furthermore, an example of acting gracefully, is being careful and cautious of what one has said or acted is an important qualification. People who act audaciously are the negation of this example. For the second definition of this word ‘grace’, which is the most famous known and familiar definition, is mercy from other people, especially from God. It is the unmerited kindness and favor given by people who think or feel sorry to the receiver. Usually, we think about God’s mercy when we think about grace. Grace is a gift and it’s always freely given. God gave His one and only son by His wide and wonderful Grace. We are saved by the Grace of God, that he forgives our sins when we ask Him to. Grace generally means that you will not be getting what you so richly deserve.
Negation is the opposite meaning or statement of the word, which means to tell the antonym of the word. To understand the word better than just knowing the definitions, drawing a clear line between what is right and what is wrong is also a good way of starting to write the negations of the word. Grace is beauty and attractiveness as I said on the first paragraph. I also mentioned that it is used both physically and acting. However, people who try to be graceful and trick others by just trying to get into the qualification of being graceful are not really who the world call ‘graceful’. Grace is being natural, naïve, and innocent. It must come out from deep in the heart, not pretending to be one. It should not be in the qualification of ‘grace’ by affectation, but by the natural and plain heart. Also, the second definition of the word, which was mercy, is forgiving others. Here, forgiving doesn’t mean getting away of people’s fault just because you have to. It means to be generous to people. It means to give and share, forgive and absolve things that they have done wrong by mistake, or sometimes even with purposes. It doesn’t mean to feel sorry for the people, but to help others, by forgiving or giving mercy to them. It must be sincerely, whole-heartedly, and for more, earnestly.
For the last section of this explanation paragraph of the definition essay, I want to give an example of the word to make a clearer definition in the reader’s mind. When you work for somebody and get a fair pay for working, it is simply called salaries or wages. It is just being fair, calculating and counting the benefits of what you have done for somebody else. When you compete with somebody and receive a gift from winning, it is called a prize or reward. It is a gift that you deserve to receive, because of what you have done by your talents. When you receive appropriate recognition for your long service or high achievement of something, it is called an award. This is also an acceptable present or prize, because you have done and achieved what other people required. However, when you are not capable of earning a wage, no ability to win a prize competing with others, or not be able to deserve an award, yet you still receive such a gift anyways, this is called the grace. It is the gifts that are always given freely to you even though you don’t deserve to have one, because you are not in any of these qualifications-earning a wage, being able to compete and win somebody, or being highly deserved to get an award. It is feeling compassion and generosity with great blessings and mercy. Therefore, we-and everything- are all God’s grace, because we are the blessings and gifts to this world.
Grace was, is, and is always going to be enduring. Grace is the unmerited gifts and blessings from people who are generous and kind-hearted. Grace will never end, and should not come to the end, because living in the world without ‘grace’ will be full of darkness and hopelessness. There will be no dreams in people’s life without having grace in this whole world. Grace is not getting what we are deserved to. It is not less, but more than what we deserve to have.
No comments:
Post a Comment