Do Buddhists Talk about Grace?

I met a new friend yesterday. I presumed he was Buddhist, but he dropped the word grace into our conversation one too many times.

"Do Buddhists talk about Grace?"

"I'm not Buddhist."

Of course I'm not unusual and I recalled: "The bodhisattva goes completely beyond convention." (from the book, Mother of the Buddhas: Meditation on the Prajnaparamita Sutra by Lex Hixon).

This is the third consecutive uninitiated conversation about grace I'd had in the last three days. So I'd thought I'd share my inklings:

Grace is the free and unmerited beneficience of a God which is all and nothing and beyond comprehension. It is the natural law of the cosmos – well outside the gravitational pull of man-made law of sin and/or karma – which is ever-available in each and every and every moment. The metaphor of gravity can be extended: The lightness of Being that comes by accepting grace each moment is akin to the weightlessness and bouyancy and peace of outer space. 

It is so unconditional and infinitely patient that it will allow you to hit the snooze button as many times as you wish, yet your remembrance of its embrace eventually wakes you up gently and in your own time.