When life is flowing as we desire, when we appear to be in
control, all too often there is little thought given to how God’s grace is playing
out in our lives.
Yes we offer quick prayers “Thank you Lord for life’s
blessings” or words similar too this, however what are the specific blessings
we are referring to? Are we just offering platitudes since really we have
done all the work.
We were playing cards with friends when the call came in that
Dad was in hospital and five days later we were planning his funeral. Life that been measured in days and weeks now
was reduced to moments.
We moved through
those moments with the pray “Lord Jesus Christ Holy Son of God of Mercy on me…”
as a constant refrain because we could nothing else, we had no words.
We made it through that week because God’s grace was
sufficient. During a week when everything was out of control a week we rode a
tidal wave of grief, anger and pain God’s power, God’s unconditional love for
us was made perfect by our weakness, we felt it because we could feel nothing else, we understood it and knew it to
be true.
We prayed Thank you Lord for standing with us, for standing
witness to our grief, for holding us from falling and for setting our feet back
on solid ground when we healed.
Resilience is knowing that thou we are weak and life is out of our control we will make it through because of God’s grace.
Grandma Snyder
©2013-2015 twosnydergirls
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