The Beautiful Rhetoric of Grace

Grace is such a simple word, yet it has far reaching meanings and implications.  What does it mean to truly have grace?  One might say that grace means that even though a person does or enacts a wrong, that wrong is thereby 'covered' or treated as if it never occurred. Of course, when I went to gather a meaning for the word grace, the following definitions stood out to me:

• favor or goodwill. Synonyms: kindness, kindliness, love, benignity; condescension.
• a manifestation of favor, especially by a superior: It was only through the dean's grace that I wasn't expelled from school. Synonyms: forgiveness, charity, mercifulness. Antonyms: animosity, enmity, disfavor.
• mercy; clemency; pardon: He was saved by an act of grace from the governor. Synonyms: lenity, leniency, reprieve. Antonyms: harshness.

 The word grace appears 159 times in the King James version of the Bible, so it would stand to reason that the rhetoric, or meaning of the word is clear to God:  extend grace.  Allow others the opportunity to be human.  It is through such actions that we are allowed to be truly who God created us to be.