~Honestly, I thought my blog days would be over. Everyone is blogging, and what are my noiseless little clamourings against the backdrop of banging, clashing, and clanging in blogdom? However, as I was reading the blog of a friend of mine who is in Korea right now, I realized how much I simply enjoyed the task of sharing a few, insignificant insights from a young 20 Something. So, if you’re reading this, thanks! And if you’re not… well… this is still healing for me.~
grace. rebirth. renewal. start over. refresh. new beginnings. spring.
Don’t you love Spring? In fact, isn’t it amazing how nature itself follows a cycle of death and renewal? It’s as if the concept of Grace is hard-wired into every level of existence. After the long decay of Autumn (a magnificent beauty indeed!), the post-Christmas winter months seem to drag on and crush us under the weight of bleak skies, as if the bony branches of bare trees were slowly wrapping around us and dragging us to the grave (okay, maybe that’s a bit exaggerated). If you’re like me, January and February are the worst months of the year. But lo! the clutches of winter are always defeated–every year–as Spring blossoms forth! The sun, the flowers, the green; it’s brilliant!
grace.
Or perhaps you’ve noticed it when you wake up in the morning. Seldom am I so poignantly reminded of Grace as when I lay in bed after waking in the morning. Yesterday could have been horrible. I may have blown it a million times.
but
today is a new day.
grace.
And so I thought it appropriate to begin the new year (about 4 months overdue) with a post that has a little bit to do with green grass and beautiful flowers and blue skies and cool streams and sunshiny mornings but has everything to do with GRACE. I would share more, but I don’t wish to bore you; suffice it to say that God has been teaching me a lot about this topic, and he is re-shaping my heart in miraculous ways. I have grown, sprung up from the ground you could say, in ways I didn’t think possible.
And so today, wherever your Road is taking you, grab hold of Grace; don’t leave home without it. Look at the Spring landscape and know that amidst chaos and pain, God has your best interests at heart.
grace.
