[I] wonder whether we have been teaching of late that grace is rare — when in fact it is everywhere. If we succumb to a theology of the scarcity of grace, are we not condemning ourselves to addictions, especially the addictions of overachievers? Do we not also condemn ourselves to a lifetime of therapy — are not our trips to therapists often a kind of pilgrimage in search of grace? A graced listener, a graced presence, a graced caring, a graceful soul, a graceful heart? But if "nature is grace," as Eckhart taught, then grace is close and everyday, as near as our return to nature — including our own deepest human natures. Then we become instruments of grace to one another — and grace moves around more freely, becomes less rare.
— Matthew Fox, Confessions