just grace

Written  Aug 26

For probably the first time in my life this week I got up before 6 am five straight days in a row. There may have been another time I arose early, but it was probably so terrible I blocked it from my memory. No I am not a morning person and for the good of everyone else its probably a good thing I've been up a good hour before I'm seen by anyone.

Thankfully though by the time I stumble out of the dorm my eyes are up open enough to glimpse the sunrise. Oh the lusciousness of the golden colors streaking the sky. There is a beckoning to just stop and look and take in the mighty power of God. Sometimes I forget to breath all though that could be attributed to the fact also that my brain isn't fully functioning yet. Ahem.

I've only been up 20 minutes and already God has already taken the time to remind me of His faithfulness. My brain may be a bit foggy before breakfast, but I'm still smart enough to know that I'm a fool to think that God isn't Good.

God's goodness has been the theme of my week. I've been hear working at the school I graduated from all of 4 months ago and its been grand.

The first few weeks of my freshmen year three years ago were anything, but grand. Life became for me a living nightmare of homework constantly tormenting me and the things I loved most like cooking and watching children were withheld from me.

In the blur of the adjustment to school I wondered how I would be able to ever make it through the year. To my utter relief I soon discovered the secret of God's grace.

I wonder what would have happened had I remained so homesick. Had I kept on worrying and feeling so discouraged, would I have even made it through that first year? Would I have come back for another year? Honestly I know if I had kept on in the course of feel distressed and overwhelmed I would have missed out on a lot. Probably I would have never have graduated and of course I then wouldn't have been around to be asked to stay at the school.   

Its a sobering thing to look back over my life and see what I was, but then to see how God in His grace changed my course to something so much more worth while.

"God's grace is sufficient for anywhere His providence places us"

I'm alive and doing adventures because of the grace of God.