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oh, He loves us.
but, between transitioning my kids from "grandparents watching us" mode back to "mom and dad's expectations" mode...and coming down off the high of the weekend...and pat being out of town for a couple days {not to mention all the normal "stuff"!} i just don't have anything deep to share.
at 10:30 pm last night, as we got home from a meeting and were brushing our teeth, i thought, do i go to the computer? and just write something? i didn't. {obviously}. because if i've learned ANYthing the last 2 years it's that i can finally give myself grace.
{do you know how amazing it is to say that?? and how sad it is that it's that amazing?}
and now here i am today. with pat gone and a full afternoon/evening ahead of homework and dinner and sports, i'm AGAIN giving myself grace to let.it.go. for today.
we'll see about tomorrow. maybe the grace will keep flowing? ;-) but, you know what, it will if it needs to. because His grace is NEVER-ENDING.
i think i need to remind one of my kids about that when he gets home from school. that even though there are consequences, there is also grace. {parenting books these days seem to say you have to choose one or the other. i believe STRONGLY that there needs to be both. together. THAT is what His grace and love look like. oh, i could go on and on but this post is not about that.}
do you find it easy or hard to give yourself grace??
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Super hard. And sometimes hard to give it to my kids...maybe because I see them as a reflection of me too much? I'm trying really hard to work on this. Thanks for the reminder today.
It's much easier to give OTHERS grace than ourselves. I have been reminded this week that we don't DESERVE any of it....love, grace, forgiveness....God gives it FREELY...because He loves us, NOT that we deserve it in any way. GRACE GRACE God's GRACE....GRACE that is greater than all my sins. Marvelous, infinite, matchless grace, freely bestowed on all who believe! You that are longing to see his face, will you this moment his grace receive?
GRACE.....brings me to tears like nothing else.
Getting much easier! For me, I feel like it's coming with the less idealistic, more realistic expectations I have as I get older. Aging may not be *all* bad. ;-)
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