Grace

Sometimes you have a week…

where the kids have been sick and everyone has cabin fever…

and you have some friends who are hurting and there's nothing you can do…

and you're tired…

and you're working through forgiveness even when you don't really want to...

and you spend time wondering if you've really got what it takes to do what you've been called to do…

and one of your babies has a birthday and reminds you of the passing of time…

and you remember that 7 years ago to the day your Granny left this earth…

and you want to curl up in bed and stay there for a bit because it seems like a lot when you put it all together. But then the boy comes in from the mailbox and there's a box with your name on it and inside the box is a note…

And under the note is a picture…

And the picture is covering up a beautiful leather purse that you had seen online, but knew you could not spend the money on, even though it supported a wonderful cause…

And you realize that God has used a kind, thoughtful and sensitive friend, whom you rarely get to see even though your hearts were bound together 2 decades before, to remind you that He sees it all…

And the tag line for the company that made the purse makes you laugh out loud when you see it because isn't that just like Him to remind you in an unexpected way that you're one of those women who has overcome and that's not going to change…

 because it's not about you…

it's about GRACE…

and this Grace upon Grace flows out of HIS fullness…

So you breathe deeply and continue to do what the card suggested…

be assured of His great dream of…

ME…

because…

I AM LOVED!!!