Trust In His Grace!
I wake up each morning at six. As I rise from the covers I have a prayer in my thoughts. My goal in waking up is not personal perfection, but surrender, and union with God. Any preoccupation with my own moral goodness keeps my eyes on myself and not on God… or grace… or love. I then head to my chair for study and reflection. I don’t look to the scripture to find perfection in how I should live, but to find the heart of our Savior. I don’t study to prove myself superior and others wrong, but to bath in the mercy and love that is the heart of God. I once saw God’s mercy as patient, benevolent tolerance, a kind of grudging forgiveness, but now mercy has become for me Gods self understanding. A loving allowing, a willing breaking of the rules by the One who made the rules—a wink and a smile. A loving holding of our hand as we look to him through our sins and human behavior. She was sixteen and wanted, for her birthday, to have her navel pierced. Her mother and I at first said “no”. However with thought and reflection we came to believe she deserved to express herself. She had never given us trouble and if all she wanted was a piercing, what can it hurt. A simple breaking of the rules, by the one who made the rules. Why? Because of love! So many times we use our interpretation of scripture to claim we are following God. When all he really ask is to trust in his grace. I Love You! Perry