Grace Received

Hoping you can still a moment to read this extract from the advent book I'm reading, The Greatest Gift, by Ann Voskamp. She writes in prose, but so beauty-filled that I've arranged them as poetry: 

And you can feel the space become a sanctuary.
Sanctity stilling the crush.
Glory overshadowing everything else.

And time holds its breath,
And the whirl of this old whirligig world holds for half a blink...
And God comes in the fullness of His love
Into the willing space.

And time exhales relief,
And the angels dance joy,
And the velvet hush of grace received falls over this place
Like a coverlet over a waiting child.

We received grace today with the news that we'll be having the best possible tenants for our house - it does feel like a soft blanket being laid over the mess of it all.