Into The Day
Thursday, June 29, 2023
Learning From the Sun,
Which Even On Smoky Days,
Skips Across the Evening Waters,
Our Days Begin With Celebrations: 1, 2, 3 …
Jeremiah 8:4
You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: When people fall, do they not get up again? If they go astray, do they not turn back?
1 Timothy 1:12
I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because he judged me faithful and appointed me to his service,
Words of Grace For Today
People fall.
People fall often, sometimes physically, more often psychologically and even more often spiritually.
Getting up again, well that is not always a simple matter.
We’d like to simply say, yes we all get back up. Well-being is restored to us and we walk tall and healthy, full of vigour and vitality.
But it just ain’t so.
Most of us walk wounded, stooped over or even crawling from day to day. And all of us will some day not ever again get up, and we hope that someone will honour us enough to lay us in a grave.
While we breathe, wounded or stooped over, we know that God walks with us and gives us strength for this day, and each new day we breathe. We do not deserve such grace. We count on such grace.
With Timothy we give God thanks, for all the strength we need God provides, and when we need added support, God carries us through the hellish days we find ourselves in, until we come out the other side into the light of love, hope, and grace.
As we can then, we take time to skip into a waltz or two step, celebrating all that God does for us, thanking God for such undeserved gifts.