Ahhhh Grace

Day Eight: Gracefilled People of the Resurrection

I recently wrote an article for my very secular job on the really non-secular topic of Grace. Well, I applied it to the secular world; grace can be extended anywhere. Being gifted something for which I did not earn or even ask for is almost unreal. Most crowds of people, on no matter what side of the political spectrum we stand, believe they earn or are entitled by their own merit most of what they receive. It is breathcatching when someone gives something out of the boundaries of what we expect to receive.

Like droplets sliding down a glass pane, these grace gifts merge and wind their way together until they are able to nourish what lies beneath. Typically, we experience grace that is small and POLITE. But occasionally grace is like a TORRENT of powerful hydration that knocks us off our feet and carries us through no control of our own into the midst of something beyond our imagination.

I give grace like droplets. I am actually pretty good at extending grace to others (not as much to myself). I see strengths in others that sometimes only a mother can love (or a heavenly Father). And when people are feeling weak, I find that these are the times when they most need a bit of grace to nourish their parched soul.

God gives GRACE like a torrent. I can only speak for myself when I say he brings me to tears and bends my stiff self to float in his Grace. I don't know how he does it, and I don't know why he would want to; but he loves me in a way that keeps me grasping toward him. He is washing past me and encouraging me to swim to meet him and he is pursuing me in my wake begging me to slow down and grab ahold. He is able to give me much more abundantly than all that I think and ask (Ephesians 3:20).

So what does he give me? Practically speaking, today he gave Big D and I hope for something to come in fall (NO IT'S NOT A BABY!). He gave me friends who care for me and my children. He gives me each new day with my mother and father here in this world. He gives me siblings, that I often take for granted, but love so dearly. He is GRACEFUL in new ways each and every day. More recently I seem to be understanding the Grace he has bestowed by allowing me to be part of his family of people of the resurrection.