We experience Grace in many ways, but this week it was in a moment of realizing that we can pick up where we left off and keep moving forward as though we never stopped.
I moved from my home of 8 years when my husband filed for divorce over a year ago because I didn't think I could stay in that house with all the memories.
After moving away, renting the house out and trying to sell it, almost a year later I am moving back into it. And I am so very happy! As I sat in my living room floor with two of my dearest friends eating, talking, laughing and crying, I realized that it felt as though I had never been gone from my home.
A feeling familiar to me from many years ago when I left a church and ministry and turned from God for four years. I remember that when I repented and ran back into His arms, it was as though those four years never happened. He never brought them up or reminded me of what I did. He just loved me and welcomed me home.
That is what Grace is to me. And it is available for you....go ahead and run back into your Heavenly Father's arms. He's not angry or disappointed in you. He's just waiting for you to come home.
I moved from my home of 8 years when my husband filed for divorce over a year ago because I didn't think I could stay in that house with all the memories.
After moving away, renting the house out and trying to sell it, almost a year later I am moving back into it. And I am so very happy! As I sat in my living room floor with two of my dearest friends eating, talking, laughing and crying, I realized that it felt as though I had never been gone from my home.
A feeling familiar to me from many years ago when I left a church and ministry and turned from God for four years. I remember that when I repented and ran back into His arms, it was as though those four years never happened. He never brought them up or reminded me of what I did. He just loved me and welcomed me home.
That is what Grace is to me. And it is available for you....go ahead and run back into your Heavenly Father's arms. He's not angry or disappointed in you. He's just waiting for you to come home.