Just a short blog today with a few thoughts. The photo was taken in New Mexico back in May when Steve and I were there on vacation....certainly not from anything in our yard in recent weeks. Thought it was pretty...it has no real meaning.
I have had the word "grace" on my mind and the thoughts have gone with it off and on over the last few days. I think whenever you have gone through anything that takes a lot out of YOU then you are often left empty, spent and somehow sad.
Grace is defined as basically receiving "favor" from God without having necessarily having deserved it. I have never been one that looked for grace or thought I deserved it...well maybe there were times I thought I did. But grace is a tricky thing. There are those who know much more than I do about the subject that could say it much better....but my thoughts here today are that there must a God that distributes this grace out. If not then there would be a lot of us out there that would be stuck in the ditches for a long time.
I think I have watched a lot of grace in action lately. I have felt a real desire to have more grace in my life with others. I have never been known to be a patient person and I have such a low tolerance for people that "get on my nerves"....so I have made a decision to make every effort to show some "grace" to them and allow them their differences and oddities....just as they allow me my own. That would be REAL grace.
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