Around us every day, God is working to make something beautiful out of something that may not have been so beautiful to begin with. But do we recognize that is what is happening?
As many of you know it has been a rough few years. I was retelling my abbreviated story to some folks the other day and once again I was told how “strong” I was.
I will be honest with you, I don’t feel strong most of the time.
I’ve been trying to work on a book and have been struggling with the common thread. Obviously, the book it about how I got to where I am today, including the hills and the valleys.
I’ve been asking God to help me discern how to tie it all together. This morning as I was tossing and turning in bed unable to sleep I was thinking about the comments that I have received over the past two years (well, probably longer than that, but let’s just go with two years).
I’ve been told I’m strong. I’ve been told how much God is with me. I’ve gotten blank stares of disbelief and been asked “How do you keep going?”
Last night I heard a friend say she gets by “by the Grace of God.”
And while that is true, it may not be what you think.
The Grace of God is not just mine to use to get by. Instead, I get by because of the Grace extended to me by my Friends and the people that I have surrounded myself with.
If there is one thing I have learned through all of this, man was not made to get through life alone.
The Grace of God has been shown to me by the actions of those around me. One definition of God’s Grace is “God’s love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love.”
I will be the first to tell you that I am not the easiest person to be around, especially while my husband and father were fighting for their lives. There were/are days when the pain is more than I want to put up with. But God continues to show Grace by sending people to surround me and show love in action.
That is what is meant when people say “By the Grace of God.”
I am thankful every night that God continues to bestow his Grace upon me. I hope you will see where God is bestowing Grace upon you.
❤️ Beautiful.