leaving room for grace

one of my professors says that all we can do is give our best, and then we have to leave room for grace to enter the given environment or situation.  sometimes we think we can just control everything, or that we have to control everything.  we make ourselves more important than we actually are.  we expect ourselves to make everything happen and assume that the world is going to end if we don't.  i'm talking about myself here as much as anybody else.  but guess what?  we're wrong!  the goodness that comes to us and others is grace, and grace is not of our doing.  when we think we can do it all, we need to take a step back and remember that grace is always acting on our behalf.  we need grace; our lives depend on it!