The book Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil (1988) begins with the following lines:

“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception.”

“We must always expect things to happen in conformity with the laws of gravity unless there is supernatural intervention.”

These statements make me think about tendencies and expectations, about the ways we lean toward particular outcomes that, when untouched by external forces, will predictably repeat in the same manner. They evoke repetitive patterns, cause and effect, and what we might call our central tendencies.

Grace, however, defies that logic, that gravity. It is an intervention that does not conform to the laws that normally structure our lives.

There is, on one hand, a logic that sets the conditions for why things are the way they are. There is, on the other hand, a Logos that operates within those conditions but also outside them, beyond the gravitational laws that govern our ordinary existence.

Logos Above Logic.