Saturday, May 15, 2021
‘Fuel’,
There is enough fuel for our hearts, minds, and strengths
for whatever comes our way
by Grace alone.
Lamentations 3:26
It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
2 Thessalonians 3:5
May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
Words of Grace For Today
So much of our lives is hectic, pressured, getting things done … or Covid 19 has changed all that and we have so much time on our hands and so little contact with other people that we do not know what to do with ourselves!
Mental health people have come up with a newly used term for what many people experience now as the 4th wave hits Canada and elsewhere in the world the situation is … well uncontained or somehow not resolved or ‘something or other, but who cares’. They refer to it as Languishing: the state of apathy for it all, not really depressed, not engaged, just worn out and plodding on without much energy or enthusiasm for much of anything.
‘But it’s not important since we cannot make a difference.’
Hectic or Bored or Languishing, or anything else, God has not abandoned us, and many have discovered in the change an opportunity to reconnect with who they really are, what God calls them to do, and how to deal with everything from hectic to boredom to languishing with … well with grace. Grace is like a couple dancing, not always in step, but moving still together in joy to music, responsive to the tune, the harmony, and the words, and those dancing as well on the dance floor. (Remember when we could gather at dances like that!)
Grace is the smoothness with which each repeatedly ‘forgives’ the other’s mis-steps, and accommodates them so that the dance continues on and the exercise, brain-exercise, and sheer thrill of the dance is possible for them and those watching!
Grace.
Grace is what enables us to know, say, trust and live out that
It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
By Grace alone we know and trust
That the Lord directs our hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
Grace.
By Grace Alone!